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Avery  Architectural  and  Fine  Arts  Library 
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THE 


R  0  A  K  E  R 


JOSEPH  RODMAN"  DRAKE 


FITZ  GREENE  HALLE CK 


-first  (Complete  (Edition 


NEW  YORK 

MDCCCI.X 


Entered  .according  to  Act  of  Congress,  in  the  year  I860, 
by  John  B.  Moreau, 

FOR    THE    BRADFORD  CLUB, 
ill  the  Clerk's  Office  of  the  District  Court  of  the  United  States 
for  the  Southern  District  of  New  York. 


(INK    III  NDHKl)   AMI   FIFTY   COPIES  PRINTED. 


subscriber's  copy. 


PREFACE. 


The  publication,  or  rather,  the  printing  a  limited  edition  for  pri- 
vate circulation,  by  special  subscription,  of  the  following  poems,  has 
arisen  from  the  desire  frequently  expressed  by  the  friends  of  the 
authors  to  possess  the  Ckoakers  in  an  authentic  form.  More  than 
once  since  their  first  appearance  in  the  columns  of  the  daily  news- 
papers, efforts  have  been  made  for  their  collection  in  print,  and  one  or 
two  unauthorized  gatherings  have  thus  been  made,  while  numerous 
copies  more  or  less  complete,  prepared  with  considerable  trouble,  have 
been  circulated  in  manuscript.  There  appears  to  be  now  a  good  op- 
portunity for  a  more  permanent  edition  of  the  poems.  The  limes  arc 
sufficiently  removed  from  the  first  publication  to  do  away  with  any 
feeling  of  asperity,  however  slight,  which  may  have  attended  their 
original  appearance  ;  for  the  verses  occasionally,  it  must  be  admitted, 
had  their  sharp  satirical  points,  though  they  were  sheathed  in  good 
humor  and  alleviated  by  polished  musical  expression.  While  any 
feeling  of  hostility  is  thus  obliterated,  we  are  not  too  far  removed 
from  the  date  of  these  productions  to  lose  the  benefit  of  consultation 
with  contemporaries  in  the  explanation  of  allusions  growing  day  by 
day  more  obscure.  A  liberal  supply  of  notes,  indeed,  is  indispensa- 
ble to  the  understanding  and  enjoyment  of  the  Choa kf.bs.  These 
have  been  supplied  with  no  little  painstaking  from  the  besl  resources 
at  hand,  and  it  is  believed  will  present  a  fair  claim  to  accuracy. 


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PREFACE. 


The  collection  will  be  found  to  contain  several  original  Croakers 
by  Mr.  Halleck,  which,  though  written  at  the  period  of  the  others, 
have  not  hitherto  seen  the  light,  while  several  additions  of  a  similar 
nature  have  been  made  from  the  manuscripts  of  Drake.  The  new 
poems  are  indicated  in  the  table  of  contents,  to  which  we  may  also 
refer  for  the  dates  of  publication. 

AVe  cannot  present  these  youthful  publications  of  the  authors  to 
the  reader,  without  a  farther  expression  of  admiration,  not  merely  of 
their  felicity  in  "literary  execution  which  ranks  them  with  the  best 
local  satires,  but  of  the  general  good  humor  without,  harshness  or  ill 
will  by  which  they  are  characterized.  True  wit  and  humor  know 
how  to  gain  their  ends  without  lacerating  the  sensibilities  of  the 
individual.  \\c  arc  none  of  us  out  of  the  reach  of  these  weapons,  or 
insensible  to  their  severities;  but  we  believe  it  maybe  said  of  the 
Choakkhs,  that  their  stroke,  though  never  pointless,  has  inflicted  no 
unseemly  injury  nor  left  any  lasting  wound.  They  are  written  in  the 
language  of  poets  with  the  self-respect  of  the  gentleman.  There  are 
no  lines  to  crop  for  their  indelicacy,  or  apologies  to  be  made  for 
transgressing  the  privileged  limits  of  this  species  id'  literature. 

To  New  Yorkers,  the  Cuoakkks  will  always  have  a  special  interest 
for  their  illustrations  of  the  notable  acts  of  notable  men  of  the  last 
generation  in  the  city  and  state,  and  it  may  not  be  too  much  to  say 
that  what  is  in  this  way  of  real  interest  to  New  York,  may  nut  be 
altogether  unworthy  of  attention  in  an  historical  point  of  view- 
throughout  the  country. 


CONTENTS. 


PAGE. 


To  Ennui,  - 

Eve. 

Post, 

10 

March, '19, 

1 

On  Presenting:  the  Freedom  of  the  City, 

11 

3 

The  Secret  Mine,    -       -       -  - 

12 

5 

When  Bony  Fought  his  Hosts  of  Foes, 

Nat. 

Adv., 

11 

7 

To  Mr.  Totter,  - 

Kv  e. 

Post, 

18 

10 

To  Mr.  Simpson,    ...  - 

15 

12 

The  National  Painting, 

Nat. 

Adv., 

15 

14 

The  Battery  War,  - 

Eve. 

Post, 

15 

15 

To  Croaker  Junior,  - 

16 

18 

To  De  Witt  Clinton, 

it; 

20 

To  the  Surgeon-General  of  New  York, 

17 

23 

To  John  Minslmll,  ... 

18 

25 

The  Man  who  Frets  at  Worldly  Strife, 

19 

27 

To  E.  Simpson,  Esq.,  - 

20 

29 

To  John  Lang,  Esq.,  -       -  - 

23 

31 

To  Domestic  Peace,  ... 

24 

33 

To  E.  Simpson,  Esq., 

25 

35 

A  Lament  for  Great  Ones  Departed, 

27 

37 

To  Captain  Seaman  Weeks, 

8 

April,  '19, 

40 

Abstract  of  the  Surgeon-Gen.  Report, 

10 

42 

To  an  Elderly  Coquette, 

is 

45 

To  Esquire,  - 

1G 

47 

Ode  to  Impudence,      -       -  - 

17 

49 

To  Mrs.  Barnes,  - 

Nat. 

Adv., 

19 

51 

To  Simon,  ----- 

Eve. 

Post, 

20 

54 

A  Loving  Epistle  to  Mr.  Win.  Cobbett, 

1 

May,  19, 

57 

The  American  Flag,  ... 

29 

59 

viii  CONTENTS. 

IWCK. 


The  Forums,      ...       -  Eve.  Post,    4  June.  "17.  02 

Ode  to  Fortune,      -                                  "           9       "  65 

The  Love  of  Notoriety,       -                        "15       "  (17 

To  Simeon  l)e  Witt,  Esq.,       -                   "17       "  69 

To  E.  Simpson,  Esq.,         -       -                "         20       "  73 

To*****---       -            "           7  July,  '19,  77 

The  Council  of  Appointment,     -              "        19       ••  7'.' 

Curtain  Conversations,  -  '■  24  "  82 
An  Address  for  (lie  Opening  of  the 

New  Theatre,  -                                      "21  Aug't.  "21.  84 

To  Walter  Bowne,  Esq.,         -       -  N.  Y.  Mir.,  26  Jan'y,  "28.  87 

The  Kecortler,    -  Eve.  Post,      ...  9] 

To  Robert  Hogbin,         -       -       -            "         16  Xov'r,  '30,  104 

The  Dinner  Party,      ...  Home  Jour.  27  May,  '50.  107 

The  Tea  Party,      ...       -           «         27       "  110 

The  Modern  Hydra,       ...  unpublished,  -       -       -  112 

The  Meeting  of  the  Grocers,       -                "         -       -       -  114 

The  King  of  the  Doctors,       -       -            "            ...  m; 

Mr.  Clinton's  Speech,  Jan.  1825,                "         ...  H8 

The  Nightmare,         ...                <<            ...  122 

To  the  Directors  of  the  Acad,  of  Arts,  "  ...  124 
Oh  !  where  are  now  the  Lights  that 

Shed,                                               ••           -      -      -  127 

To  Quackery,         ....            "  12'.l 

The  Militia.       -                                      "            ...  |£g 


THE  CROAKERS. 




TO  EMUI. 


A  vaunt !  arch  enemy  of  fun, 

Grim  nightmare  of  the  mind; 
Which  way,  great  Momus  !  shall  I  run, 

A  refuge  safe  to  find  ? 
My  puppy's  dead  —  Miss  Rumor's  breath 

Is  stopt  for  lack  of  news, 
And  Fitz  is  almost  hyp'd  to  death, 

And  Lang1  has  got  the  blues. 

I've  read  friend  Noah's2  book  quite  thro' 

Appendix,  notes  and  all ; 
I've  swallowed  Lady  Morgan's3  too, 

And  blundered  through  De  Stael : 
The  Edinburgh  Review — I've  seeu't 

The  last  that  has  been  shipt  ; 
I've  read  —  in  short  —  all  books  in  print, 

And  some  in  manuscript. 


THE  CROAKERS. 


I'm  sick  of  General  Jackson's  toast, 

Canals  arc  nought  to  me  : 
Nor  do  I  care  who  rules  the  roast 

Clinton  —  or  John  Targee: 
No  stock  in  any  Bank  I  own, 

I  fear  no  Lottery  shark 
And  if  the  Battery  were  gone, 

E'd  ramble  in  the  Park. 

Let  gilded  Guardsmen  shake  their  toes, 

Let  Altorf4  please  the  pit, 
Let  Mister  Hawkins  "  "blow  his  nose" 

And  Spooner6  publish  it: 
Insolvent  laws  let  Marshall7  break. 

Let  dying  Baldwin s  cavil ; 
And  let  tenth  ward  electors  shake 

Committees  to  the  devil. 

In  vain  —  for  like  a  cruel  cat 

That  sucks  a  child  to  death, 
Or  like  a  Madagascar  bat, 

"Who  poisons  with  his  breath, 
The  fiend  —  the  fiend  is  on  me  still; 

Come,  doctor!  —  here's  your  pay  — 
What  lotion,  potion,  plaster,  pill, 

Will  drive  the  beast  away? 

O&OAK  Kit. 


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ON  PRESENTING ' 

THE  FREEDOM  OF  THE  CITY 

IN  A  GOLD  BOX  TO  A  GREAT  GENERAL. 


The  board  is  met — the  names  are  read  ; 

Elate  of  heart,  the  glad  committee 
Declare  the  mighty  man  has  said 

He'll  take  "the  freedom  of  the  city." 
He  thanks  the  council,  and  the  mayor, 

Presents  'em  all,  his  humble  service; 
And  thinks  he's  time  enough  to  spare 

To  sit  an  hour  or  so  with  Jarvis. 


Hurra!  hurra  !  prepare  the  room  — 

Skaats ! 10  are  the  ham  and  oysters  come 

Go  —  make  some  savoury  whiskey  punch, 
The  General  takes  it  with  his  lunch  ; 

For  a  sick  stomach,  'tis  a  cure  fit 
And  vastly  useful  in  a  surfeit. 


THE  CKOAKEKS. 


But  see!  the  mayor  is  in  tlie  chair, 

The  council  is  convened  again  ; 
And  ranged  in  many  a  circle  fair, 

The  ladies  and  the  gentlemen 
Sit  mincing,  bowing,  smiting,  talking 

Of  congress — halls  —  the  Indian  force  — 
Some  think  the  General  will  be  walking, 

And  some  suppose  he'll  ride  of  course  : 
And  some  are  whistling  —  some  are  humming  — 

And  some  are  peering  in  the  Bark 
To  try  if  they  can  see  him  coming; 

And  some  are  half  asleep  —  when  hark  ! 

A  triumph  on  the  war-like  drum. 

A  heart-unlifting  bugle  strain, 
A  fife's  far  flourish  — and  "they  come  !" 

Bung  from  the  gathered  train. 
Sit  down  —  the  fun  will  soon  commence  — 

Quick  !  quick  your  honour  !  mount  your  place  ; 
Present  your  loaded  compliments, 

And  fire  a  volley  in  his  face. 

They're  at  it  now  — great  guns  and  small  — 
Squib,  cracker,  cannon,  musquetry  : 

Dear  General!  though  you  swallow  all ; 
1  must  confess  it  sickens  me. 


C'uo  ak  i:r. 


THE  "SECRET  11  MINE. 

SPRUNG  AT  A  LATE  SUPPER. 


The  songs  wore  good,  for  Mead12  and  Hawkins  sung  'em, 

The  wine  weut  round,  'twas  laughter  all,  and  joke  ; 
When  crack !  the  General  sprung  a  mine  among  'em, 

And  beat  a  safe  retreat  amid  the  smoke : 
As  fall  the  sticks  of  rockets,  when  we  fire  'em, 

So  fell  the  Bucktails  at  that  toast  accurst ; 
Looking  like  Korah,  Dathan  and  Abiram, 

When  the  firm  earth  beneath  their  footsteps  burst. 

Quell'd  is  big  Haff13  who  oft  has  fire  and  flood  stood, 

More  pallid  grows  the  snowy  cheek  of  Rose, 
Cold  sweats  bedew  the  leathern  hide  of  Bloodgood," 

Deep  sinks  the  concave  of  huge  Edwards'  nose. 
But  see  the  Generals  Golden  18  and  Bogardus,16 

•Toy  sits  enthroned  in  each  elated  eye; 
While  Doyle17  and  Mumford  18  clap  their  fists  as  bard  as 

The  iron  mauls  in  Pierson's  factory. 


(i  THE  CROAKERS. 

The  midnight  conclave  met,  good  Johnny  Targee 

Begins  (as  usual)  to  bestow  advice; 
"Declare  the  General  a  fool,  I  charge  ye! 

And  swear  the  toast  was  not  his  own  free  choice ; 
Tell  'em  that  Golden  prompted  —  and  maintain  it. 

That  is  the  fact,  I'm  sure;  but  we  can  see 
By  sending  Aleck  down  to  ascertain  it." 

That  hint  was  taken,  and  accordingly 


A  certain  member  had  a  conversation 

And  asked  a  certain  surgeon  all  about  it; 
Some  folks  assert  he  got  the  information  ; 

'Tis  also  said,  he  came  away  without  it: 
Good  people  all !  I'm  up  to  more  than  you  know  ; 

Hut  prudence  frowns  —  my  coward  gooseouil]  lingers, 
For  fear  that  Hint  and  trigger,  Doctor19  Bronaugh 

Should  slip  a  challenge  in  your  poet's  fingers  ! 

Croak  er. 


"  There  was  captain  Cucumber,  lieutenant  Tripe,  ensign  Pattypan,  and 
myself." 

Mayor  of  Garratt. 


When  Bony  fought  his  hosts  of  foes, 
Heroes  and  generals  arose 

Like  mushrooms  when  he  bade  them: 
Europe,  while  trembling  at  his  nod, 
Thought  him  a  sort  of  demi-god  — 

So  wondrous  quick  he  made  them. 


But  every  dog  must  have  his  day  ; 
Poor  Bony's  power  has  passed  away; 

His  track  let  others  follow. 
Yet  in  the  talent  of  the  great, 
With  dash  of  goose  cmill  to  create, 

Our  Clinton20  beats  him  hollow  ! 


THE  CKOAKEHS. 


Alas!  thou  little  god"  of  war. 

The  proud  effulgence  of  thy  stal- 
ls dimmed  I  fear,  for  ever; 

Though  bright  thy  hut  tons  long  have  shined, 

And  still  thy  powdered  hair  behind, 
Is  clubbed  so  neat  and  clever. 

Yet  round  thee  are  assembled  now 
New  chieftains,  all  intent  as  thou 

On  hard  militia  duty:  — 
There's  King23  conspicuous  for  his  hat, 
And  Ferris  Pell'21  for  God  knows  what  — 

And  liayard,-'  for  his  beauty. 

These  are  hut  colonels  —  there  are  hosts 
Of  higher  grades,  like  Bauquo's  gliosis 

Upon  ray  sight  advancing. 
In  truth,  they  made  e'en  Jackson  stare, 
When  in  the  Park,  uptossed  in  air, 

He  saw  their  plumage  dancing. 

Yet  I  should  wrong  them  not  to  name 
Two  major-generals,  high  in  fame  — 

By  Heaven  !  a  gallant  pair! 
(They  haven't  any  soldiers  yet) 
His  honour,  general  by  brevet, 

Bogardus  — brevet  mayor. 


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THE  CROAKERS. 


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Should  England  dare  to  send  again 
Her  scoundrel  red  coats  o'er  the  main, 

I  fear  some  sad  disaster  : 
Each  soldier  wears  an  epaulette  ; 
The  Guards  have  turned  a  capering  set, 

And  want  a  dancing  master. 

Sain  Swartwout,26  where  are  now  your  Greys  ? 
Oh  !  hid  again  their  banner  hlaze 

O'er  hearts  and  ranks  unbroken  : — 
Let  drum  and  fife  your  slumbers  break, 
And  bid  the  Devil  freely  take 

Your  meadows  at  Hoboken. 

Croaker,  Junior. 


■2 


TO    MR.  POTTER,* 

THE  VENTRILOQUIST. 


Dear  Sir: 

You've  heard  that  Mr.  Robbin28 

Has  brought  in,  without  rhyme  or  reason, 
A  hill  to  send  you  jugglers  hopping; 

That  hill  will  pass  this  very  season  : 
Now  as  you  lose  your  occupation, 

And  may  perhaps  he  low  in  coffer. 
I  send  for  your  consideration 

The  following  very  liberal  offer. 

Five  hundred  down,  by  way  of  bounty. 

Expenses  paid,  (as  shall  be  stated) 
Xcxt  April  to  Chenango  county: 

And  there  we'll  have  you  nominated: 
Your  duty  '11  be,  to  watch  the  tongues 

"When  Root's-'  brigade  begins  to  skirmish, 
To  stop  their  speeches  in  their  lungs, 

And  bring  out  such  as  1  shall  furnish. 


THE  CKOAKKRS. 


Thy  ventriloquial  powers,  my  Potter! 

Shall  turn  to  music  every  word, 
And  make  the  Martling30  deists  utter 

Harmonious  anthems  to  our  Lord. 
Then,  all  their  former  tricks  upsetting, 

To  honey  thou  shalt  change  their  gall, 
For  Sharpe31  shall  vindicate  brevetting, 

And  Root  admire  the  great  canal. 

It  will  he  pleasant  too,  to  hear  a 

Decent  speech  among  our  swains; 
We  almost  had  begun  to  fear  a 

Famine  for  the  dearth  of  brains: 
No  more  their  tongues  shall  play  the  devil. 

Thy  potent  art  the  fault  prevents  ; 
Now  German32  shall,  for  once  be  civil, 

And  Bacon33  speak  with  common  sense. 

Poor  German's  head  is  but  a  leaker  ; 

Should  yours  be  found  compact  and  elose, 
As  you're  to  be  the  only  speaker, 

We'll  make  you  speaker  of  the  house — 
If  you're  in  haste  to  "touch  the  siller," 

Dispatch  me  your  acceptance  merely, 
And  call  on  trusty  Mr.  Miller,34 

He'll  pay  the  cash — 

Sir, 

Yours,  sincerely, 

Croaker. 


TO  MR.  SJMI'SoX. 

MANAGER  OF  THE  THEATRE. 


I'm  a  friend  to  your  theatre,  oft  have  I  told  you. 

And  a  still  warmer  friend,  Mr.  Simpson,  to  you, 
And  it  gives  me  great  pain,  be  assured,  to  behold  you 

Go  fast  to  the  devil,  as  lately  you  do. 
We  scarcely  should  know  you  were  still  in  existence, 

Were  it  not  for  the  play  hills  one  sees  in  Broadway; 
The  newspapers  all  seem  to  keep  at  a  distance; 

Have  your  puffers  deserted  for  want  of  their  pay? 


Poor  Woodworth  !M  his  Chronicle  died  broken  hearted  : 

What  a  loss  to  the  drama  !  the  world  and  the  aire! 
And  Coleman37  is  silent  since  I'hilipps  departed, 

And  Noah's  too  busy  to  think  of  the  stage. 
Now,  the  aim  of  this  letter  is  merely  to  mention 

That  since  all  your  critics  are  laid  on  the  shell'. 
Out  of  pure  love  to  you,  it  is  my  kind  intention 

To  bike  box  No.  3,  and  turn  critic  myself. 


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Engraved  bj  A-UDurand  from  a  painting- livJ.Neas-le. 
Lopez  k  Wanyss' Edition 
TuUistwd  Tjy  AJQ'ocile  IMod?  18v>6. 


THE  CROAKERS. 


Your  ladies  are  safe — if  you  please  you  may  say  it, 

Perhaps  they  have  faults — but  I'll  let  them  alone; 
Yet  I  owe  two  a  del)t — 'tis  my  duty  to  pay  it, 

Of  them  I  must  speak  in  a  kind,  friendly  tone. 
Mrs.  Barnes — -Shakspeare's  heart  would  have  beat  had 
he  seen  her ; 

Her  magic  has  drawn  from  me  many  a  tear, 
And  ne'er  shall  my  pen  or  its  satire  chagrin  her, 

While  pathos  and  genius  and  feeling  are  dear. 

And  there's  sweet  Miss  Leesugg,38  by  the  bye,  she's  not 
pretty, 

She's  a  little  too  large,  and  has  not  too  much  grace, 
Yet  there  is  something  about  her  so  witching  and  witty, 

Tis  pleasure  to  gaze  on  her  good  humoured  face. 
But  as  for  your  men — I  don't  mean  to  be  surly — 

They  soon  may  expect  to  have  each  one  his  due ; 
For  the  present — there's  011ifl"s,  a  famous  Lord  Bivr- 
leigh. 

And  Hopper'''  and  Maywood40  are  promising  too. 

Y^ours, 

Croaker,  Junior. 


THE  NATION  A  I.  PAINTING.41 


Awake!  ye  forms  of  verse  divine — 

Painting!  descend  on  canvass  wing, 
And  hover  o'er  my  head  Design  ! 

Your  son.  your  glorious  son  [  sing! 
At  Trumbull's12  name,  1  break  my  sloth, 

To  load  him  with  poetic  riches; 
The  Titian  of  a  table  cloth  ! 

The  Guido  of  a  pair  of  breeches  ! 

Come  star-eyed  maid — Equality! 

In  thine  adorer's  praise  I  revel : 
Who  brings,  so  fierce  his  love  to  thee — 

All  forms  and  faces  to  a  level  : 
Old,  young — great,  small — the  grave,  the  gay; 

Each  man  might  swear  the  next  his  brother, 
And  there  they  stand  in  dread  array. 

To  fire  their  votes  at  one  another. 


THE  CROAKERS. 


1 


How  brighl  their  buttons  shine!  how  straight 

Their  coat-flaps  fall  in  plaited  grace; 
How  smooth  the  hair  on  every  pate  : 

[low  vacant  each  immortal  face  ! 
And  then  thy  tints — the  shade — the  flush — 

(I  wrong-  them  with  a  strain  too  humble) 
Not  mighty  Sherred's43  strength  of  brush 

Can  match  thy  glowing  hues,  my  Trumbull. 

Go  on,  great  painter !  dare  be  dull ; 

No  longer  after  nature  dangle  ; 
Call  rectilinear  beautiful  ; 

Find  grace  and  freedom  in  an  angle  : 
Pour  on  the  red — the  green — the  yellow — 

"  Paint  'till  a  horse  may  mire  upon  it," 
And  while  I've  strength  to  write  or  bellow, 

I'll  sound  your  praises  in  a  sonnet. 

Croaker. 


THE  BATTERY  WAR.44 


'•Tii  ice.  twenty  shoe-boys,  twice  two  dozen  guards. 
Chairmen  and  porters — hackney  coachmen — Dandies!" 

Tom  Thumb. 


"  Sere  Dickens ! — Go  fetch  my  great  coat  and  umbrella, 

Tell  Johnny  and  Robert  to  put  on  their  shoes; 
And  Dickens — take  something  to  drink,  in  v  good  fellow. 

You  may  go  with  Tom  Ostler,  along,  if  you  choose: 
You  must  put  your  new  coat  on — hut  mind,  and  he  quiet, 

Till  my  clerk,  Mr.  Scribble,  shall  tip  you  the  wink, 
Then  roar  like  the  devil — hiss — kick  up  a  riot ! 

I  imagine  we'll  settle  the  thing  in  a  twink." 

Arrived  at  the  Hall1''  they  were  nothing  too  early: 
Little  Eartman46  was  placed,  like  king  log,  in  the  chair, 

Supported,  for  contrast,  1 » v  modest  king  Charley: 
The  general  was  speaking,  who  is  to  he  mayor: 

Undaunted,  he  stood  in  the  midst  of  the  hohherie, 
Clerks — footmen — and  Dandies — ye  gods!    what  a 
noise. 

No  thief  in  Fly-Market,  just  caught  in  a  robbery. 
Could  raise  such  a  clatter  of  blackguards  and  hoys. 


THE  CROAKERS. 


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Mercein47  and  Bogardus  each  told  a  long  story, 

Very  fine  without  doubt  to  such  folks  as  could  hear ; 
Then  the  two  kings  resigned,  and  in  high  gigandglory, 

The  light-footed  chief  of  the  guards  took  the  chair, 
So  he  made  them  a  speech,  about  little  or  nothing, 

Except  he  advised  'em  "  to  go  home  to  bed  ;" 
And  the  simple  fact  is,  that,  in  spite  of  their  mouthing, 

'Twas  the  only  good,  sensible,  thing  that  was  said. 

Bye  the  way,  though — we've  heard  that  these  sous  of 
sedition, 

These  "vile  Bonapartes,"  (to  quote  Jemmy  Lent,)4S 
Are  about  to  bring  forward  a  second  edition, 

And  Squire  McGTarraghan  "fears  the  event." 
Now,  to  let  our  wise  council  their  honest  game  play 
on  yet, 

Just  call  out,  your  honour,  the  Gingerbread  Guards — 
Bid  them  drive  at  the  traitors  with  cutlass  and  bayonet, 
And  then  pick  their  pockets  as  bare — as  your  bards'. 

Croaker  &  Co. 


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TO  CROAK KK,  .1TXI0E. 


Your  hand,  my  dear  Junior!  we're  all  in  a  flame 

To  see  a  few  more  of  your  flashes; 
The  Croakers  for  ever!  I'm  proud  of  the  name  — 
l>ut  brother,  I  fear,  though  our  cause  is  the  same, 

"We  shall  quarrel  like  Brutus  and  Cassius. 

But  why  should  we  do  so  !  'tis  false  what  they  tell, 

That  poets  can  never  he  cronies; 
Unbuckle  your  harness,  in  peace  let  us  dwell; 
Our  goose  quills  will  canter  together  as  well 

As  a  pair  of  Prime's49  mouse  color'd  ponies. 

Once  blended  in  spirit,  we'll  make  our  appeal, 

And  hy  law  he  incorporate  too; 
Apply  for  a  charter  in  crackers  to  deal, 
A  fly-flapper  rampant  shall  shine  on  our  seal. 

And  the  firm  shall  he  "  Croaker  &  Co." 


THE  CROAKERS. 


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Fun  !  prosper  the  union  —  smile,  fate,  on  its  birth; 

Miss  Atropos  shut  up  your  scissors  ; 
Together  we'll  range  thro'  the  regions  of  mirth, 
A  pair  of  bright  Gemini  dropt  on  the  earth, 

The  Castor  and  Pollux  of  quizzers. 

Croaker. 


Mb.  Bditob  —  1  wish  you  to  precede  i lie  lines  1  semi  yon  enclosed, 
by  republishing  Mr.  Hamilton's  late  letter  t<>  the  governor  verbatim  >t 
literatim,  in  order  thai  the  world  may  see,  that  on  this  occasion,  at 
least,  the  poet  does  not  deal  in  fiction. 

"  To  De  Witt  Clinton,  governor  of  the  State  of  New  York  :'*30 

"Sir  —  To  your  shame  and  confusion  let  it  he  recorded,  that  yon 
dared  not  assume  the  responsibility  of  preserving  to  our  national  coun- 
cils a  patriotic  and  distinguished  statesman,  while  you  could  advocate 
the  publication  of  an  insidious  and  hase  attack  upon  private  character 
through  I  he  puhlic  organ  of  your  administration.  You  know  the 
motive  of  my  visit  to  Mr.  Hoot — you  were  not  ignorant  that  the  sena- 
torial reelection  of  Unfits  King,  was  to  me  a  subject  of  deep  personal 
concern  :  and  on  this  occasion  you  declared,  that  you  had  marked  my 
course,  and  that  this  support  should  recoil  with  vengeance  upon  the 
republican  party.  To  those  intimate  with  your  pusillanimity  and 
intrigues,  you  disappoint  no  expectation.  The  traducer  of  America's 
brightest  ornaments  can  only  he  consistent  within  the  sphere  of  his 
degeneracy.  It  is  the  pride  of  the  name  1  hear,  to  he  distinguished  by 
your  envenomed  malignity  —  one  and  all.  we  are  opposed  to  your  ad- 
ministration and  your  character.  I  am  induced  to  make  this  explana- 
tion as  a  permanent''1  obligation  to  the  puhlic;  to  my  own  feelings  it  is 
perfectly  humiliating.  I  have  the  honour  to  remain  your  obedient 
servant. 

Al.KX  \M>KIt    II  \  M  I  I. TON. 

Assembly  Chamber,  March  Nth.  1810. 


J 


A  VERY  MODEST  LETTER 

FROM  ONE  GREAT  MAN  TO  ANOTHER. 


"  To  he  a  well-favoured  man  is  the  gift  of  fortune,  hut  to  write  and  read 
comes  hi/  nature." — Dogberry. 

How  dare  you,  .sir,  presume  to  say 
And  write  and  print  the  paltry  thing, 

That  I  did  wrong  the  other  day, 
To  give  my  vote  for  Rufus  King-! 

'Twas  natural  that  I  should  take  a 

Particular  interest  in  it,  sir, 
For  I've  been  agent  at  Jamaica,52 

And  he  a  foreign  minister. 

You  say,  you've  "  marked  my  course"  of  late, 
And  mean  to  make  what  I've  been  doing 

A  means  of  breaking  up  the  state, 
And  bringing  on  our  party's  ruin. 


THE  CIJOAEELS- 

Wr;h  *!i  w1k»~yv  kaovn  toot  soxsodivi  triek^ 

SiBoe  first  jmm  came  to  ecr-e  ifee 
Tbe  Laeilfer  of  j«Btic< ! 


It  saits  ever  mean  a&i  £ivweffi»f  ?j> 
Urns  to  arcaek  ^rvat  saea  like  rae 

Yoa  siii^ier  ocX  cLaefc  v>f  saerit. 
Soars  Ik  mt  eoantrv  >  I 


»tei  i»  Tii-k  i 
Hi?  aactle  o'er  Eii*  daw: 
Wmm  Im  my  tuber  >  eWess  sob, 
Ar*l  beir  to  ill      zilec:>  : 


We  re  iwv«4  la  =»y  —  tfce  k»o« 

Yo*  fiked  owfiflttly : 

We  ~  **e  4mi*t~  kave  Ke*»  JHr  fc*^a 

My  brecber  Xa.  *=>!  Job*  *»d  L 

Foe  my  o*-»  sate,  yoos  well  may 
Tfat  I  tbes*  fiaes  to  y*«  ba*v- 
It  is  to  l*x  die 


issraXiJi""* 


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TO  THE  SURGEON  GENERAL" 

OF  THE  STATE  OF  NEW  YORK. 


"Why,  Tom,  he  knows  all  things  —  ArC  it  be  not  the  devil  himself,  ive 
may  thank  God." — Village  Wizard. 

Oli !  Mitchill,  lord  of  granite  flints, 

Doctus,  in  law  —  and  wholesome  dishes  ; 
Protector  of  the  patent  splints, 

The  foe  of  whales  —  the  friend  of  fishes ; 
"  Tom-Codus  " — "  Septon  " — "Phlogobombos  !"53 

What  title  shall  we  find  to  fit  ye  ? 
Inquisitor  of  sprats  and  compost ! 

Or  Surgeon  General  of  Militia  ! 

We  hail  thee! — mammoth  of  the  state  ! 

Steam  frigate  !  on  the  waves  of  physic  — 
Equal  in  practice  or  debate, 

To  cure  the  nation  or  the  phthisic  : 
The  amateur  of  Tartar  dogs  ! 

Wheat-flies,  and  maggots  that  create  'em  ! 
Of  mummies!  and  of  mummy-chogs  !86 

Of  brick-bats  —  lotteries  —  and  pomatum  ! 


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THE  CROAKERS. 


It  matters  not  how  low  or  high  it  Lb, 

Thou  knowest  each  hill  and  vale  of  knowledge 
Fellow  of  forty-nine  societies! 

And  lecturer  in  David  s  College  — 
And  when  thou  dicst — (for  life  is  brief;) 

Thy  name,  in  all  its  gathered  glory. 
Shall  shine,  immortal!  as  the  leaf 

Of  Delaplainc's  Repository.56 

CltOAKEK  &  Co. 


Setter  2<fif  /tu^. 


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K,t^i  C^y  7 


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TO  JOHN  MLNSIIULL,  ESQ.57 

POET  AX D  PLAYWRIGHT  ; 

FORMERLY  OF  MAIDEN  LANE,  BUT  NOW  ABSENT  IN  EUROPE. 


Oh  !  bard  of  the  west,  hasten  back  from  Great  Britain  ! 

Our  harp-strings  are  silent,  they  droop  on  the  tree; 
What  poet  among  us,  is  worthy  to  sit  in 

The  chair  whose  fair  cushion  was  hallowed  by  thee  ? 
In  vain  the  wild  clouds  o'er  our  mountain-tops  hover, 

Our  rivers  flow  sadly,  our  groves  are  bereft ; 
They  have  lost  —  and  forever !  their  poet,  their  lover  ! 

And  "Woodworth  and  Paulding  are  all  we  have  left. 


Great  Woodworth,  the  champion  of  Buckets  and 
Freedom, 

Thou  "  editor,  author  and  critic  "  to  boot, 
I  must  leave  thy  rich  volumes  to  those  that  can  read  'em, 

For  my  part  I  never  had  patience  to  do 't. 
And,  as  for  poor  Upham,  (who  in  a  fine  huff  says 

He'll  yield  to  no  Briton  the  laurel  of  wit,) 
Alas  !  they  have  "  stol'n  his  ideas,"  as  Puff  says, 

I  had  read  all  his  poems  before  they  were  writ. 
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But  hail !  to  thee  Paulding,58  the  pride  of  the  Backwood ! 

The  poet  of  cabbages,  log  huts  and  gin, 
God  forbid  thou  should'st  get  in  the  clutches  of 
Blackwood, 

Oh  Lord  !  how  the  wits  of  Old  England  would  grin: 
In  pathos  —  Oh  !  who  could  he  flatter  or  funnier  ? 

Were  ever  descriptions  more  vulgar  and  tame  ? 
I  wronged  thee,  hv  Heaven  !  when  I  said  there  were 
none  here 

Could  cope  with  great  Minshull,  thou  peer  of  his 
fame  ! 

Croaker. 


A  merry  heart  ffoes  all  the  way, 
A  sad  one  tires  in  a  mile-a." 

Winter's  Talc. 


The  man  who  frets  at  worldly  strife 

Grows  sallow,  sour,  and  thin ; 
Give  us  the  lad  whose  happy  life 

Is  one  perpetual  grin  : 
He,  Midas  like,  turns  all  to  gold, 

He  smiles  when  others  sigh, 
Enjoys  alike  the  hot  and  cold, 

And  laughs  thro'  wet  and  dry. 


There's  fun  in  every  thing  we  meet, 

The  greatest,  worst  and  hest ; 
Existence  is  a  merry  treat, 

And  every  speech  a  jest : 
Be't  ours  to  watch  the  crowds  that  pass 

Where  mirth's  gay  banner  waves  : 
To  show  fools  thro'  a  quizzing  glass, 

And  bastinade  the  knaves. 


THE  CROAKERS. 


The  serious  world  will  scold  and  ban, 

In  clamour  loud  and  hard, 
To  hoar  Meigs™  called  a  congressman, 

And  Paulding  styled  a  hard: 
But  come  what  may  —  the  man's  in  luck 

Who  turns  it  all  to  glee, 
And  laughing  cries,  with  honest  Puck, 

"  Good  Lord  !  what  fools  ye  be." 

Croak  br. 


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I 


TO  E.  SIMPSON,  ESQ.,60 


ON  WITNESSING  THE  REPRESENTATION  OF  THE  .NEW  TRAGEDY  OF  BRUTUS. 


I  have  been  every  night  —  whether  empty  or  crowded, 

And  taken  my  seat  in  your  hox  ~No.  3, 
In  a  sort  of  poetical  Scotch  mist  I'm  shrouded, 

As  the  far-fam'd  Invisible  Girl  used  to  be. 

As  a  critic  professed,  'tis  my  province  to  flout  you, 
And  hiss  as  they  did  at  poor  Charley's  Macheath, 

But  all  is  so  right  and  so  proper  about  you, 

That  I'm  forced  to  be  civil  —  in  spite  of  my  teeth. 

In  your  dresses  and  scenery,  classie  and  clever ! 

Such  invention  !  such  blending  of  old  things  and 
new ! 

Let  Ivemble's  proud  laurels  be  withered  forever! 
Wear  the  wreath,  my  dear  Simpson,  'tis  fairly  your 
due. 

How  "apropos  "  now  was  that  street  scene  in  Brutus, 
Where  the  sign  "  Coffee-house  "  in  plain  English  was 
writ ! 

By  the  way,  "  Billy  Niblo's"  would  much  better  suit  us, 
And  box,  pit  and  gallery  roar  at  the  wit. 


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T1IK  CROAKERS. 


J  low  sparkled  the  eyes  of  the  raptured  heholders, 

To  see  Kilner61  —  a  Roman  —  in  robes  "a-la-Grcc !" 
How  graceful  they  flowed  o'er  his  neatly-turned 
shoulders ! 

How  completely  they  set  oft*  his  Johnny  Bull  neck  ! 

But  to  hint  at  the  thousand  tine  things  that  amuse  me 
Would  take  me  a  month  — so  adieu  till  my  next. 

And  yoiir  actors  —  they  must  for  the  present  excuse  me ; 
One  word  though,  "en-passant"  for  fear  they'll  he 
vex'd: 

Moreland,02  Howard03  and  Garner6'  —  the  last  importa- 
tion ! 

Three  feathers,  as  bright  as  the  Prince  Regent's 
plume ! 

Though  putKng  is,  certainly,  not  my  vocation, 
I  always  shall  praise  them  — whenever  I've  room. 

With  manners  —  so  formed  to  persuade  and  to  win  ye! 

With  faces  —  one  need  hut  to  look  on  to  love  ! 
Like  Jefferson's  Natural  Bridge  in  Virginia  — 

"  Worth  a  voyage  across  the  Atlantic,"  by  Jove  ! ! 


Croaker,  Junior. 


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> 


TO  JOHN  LANG,  ESQ.65 


"  And  still  they  gaz'd,  and  still  the  wonder  grew, 
That  one  small  head  could  carry  all  he  knew." 

Goldsmith. 

"We've  twined  the  wreath  of  honor 
Round  Doctor  Mitchill's  hrow ; 
Though  bold  and  daring  was  the  theme, 

A  loftier  waits  us  now. 
In  thee  —  Immortal  Lang  ! 66  have  all 

The  Sister  Graces  met  — 
Thou  Statesman  !  Sage !  and  "  Editor  " 
Of  the  New  York  Gazette  ! 

A  secoud  Faustus  in  thine  art ! 

The  Newton  of  our  clime  ! 
The  Bonaparte  of  Bulletins  ! 67 

The  Johnson  of  thy  time  !  — 
At  thy  dread  name,  the  "  terriers  "  hark, 

The  "  rats  "  fly  to  their  holes  ! 
Thou  Prince  of  "  petty  paragraphs  !" 

"  Bed  Notes,"  and  "  Signal  Poles !" 


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THE  CROAKERS. 


There's  genius  in  thy  speaking  face  — 

There's  greatness  in  thine  air  — 
Take  "  Franklin  s  bust  "  from63  off  thy  roof, 

And  place  thine  own  head  there ! 
'•  Ei(jht  corners  within  pistol  shot " 

Long  with  thy  fame  have  rang! 
And  "Blue-Birds"  sung  —  and  "  mad-cows' "  lowed 

The  name  of  Johnny  Lang  ! 

Croaker  &  Co. 


TO  DOMESTIC  PEACE. 


"  Malbrook  s'cn  va-t-en  guerre." 

Oli !  Peace  !  ascend  again  thy  throne, 

Resume  the  spotless  olive  leaf! 
Display  thy  snowy  muslin  gown, 
And  wave  o'er  this  distracted  town, 
Thy  cambric  pocket  handkerchief ! 

Or,  if  thou  dost  not  like  the  dress 

( We  own  we  have  our  doubts  upon  it), 

Come  like  some  pretty  Quakeress, 

And  let  thine  orbs  of  quietness 

Shine,  dove-like,  from  a  satin  bonnet ! 

We  need  thee,  row-abhorring  maid  ! 

The  dogs  of  party  bark  alarms, 
And  ere  the  Battery-tax  is  laid, 
And  ere  the  next  election's  made, 

E'en  Murray's  Guards  will  rush  to  anas. 
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THE  CROAKEBS. 

Feds,  Coodics,C9  Bucktails,70  —  all  in  flame  — 

"With  peals  of  nonsense  frighten  thee ; 
Sweet  Peace  !  thou  wert  not  much  to  blame, 
If  thou  shouldst  loathe  the  very  name 
Of  Clinton,  or  of  John  Targee. 

For  us,  enthron'd  in  elbow  chair, 

Thy  foes  alone  with  ink  we  sprinkle  ; 

We  love  to  smooth  the  cheek  of  care, 

Until  we  leave  no  furrow  there, 

Save  laughter's  evanescent  wrinkle. 

"With  thee  and  Mirth,  we'll  quit  the  throng  — 

Each  hour  shall  see  our  pleasures  vary  ; 
Jarvis71  shall  bring  his  Oats  along, 
And  Lynch7-  shall  float  In  floods  of  song, 
Pure  as  his  highest-priced  Madeira  ! 

Croakeb  &  Co. 


AS  BlliLY  LACKAliAY. 


hirajid  from  a  painUtifj;  by  JNeagi 


TO  E.  SIMPSON",  ESQ., 

MANAGER  OF  THE  NEW  YORK  THEATRE. 


Mr.  Philipps73  lias  gone  —  and  he  carries  away  with  him 

Much  of  my  cash  —  and  my  hearty  good  will : 
To  both  he  is  welcome,  and  long  may  they  stay  with 
him  — 

Poor  as  he's  made  me,  Pll  cherish  him  still. 

For  when  the  wild  spell  of  his  melody  bound  me, 
I  marked  not  the  flight  of  the  gay,  happy  hours : 

His  music  created  a  fairy  land  round  me, 

Above  it,  was  sunshine  —  below  it,  were  flowTers. 

But  'tis  folly  to  weep  —  we  must  cease  to  regret  him  — 

Look  about — you  have  many  as  brilliant  a  star: 
There's  Barnes,74  (you  may  laugh  if  you  will,)  but  just 
let  him 

Play  Belino75  for  once;  — he'll  beat  Philipps  by  far! 


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THE  CROAKERS. 


When  he  sings  Love's  Young  Dream,  every  heart  will 
be  beating, 

The  ladies  shall  wave  their  white  kerchiefs  in  air; 
And  peals  of  applauses  shall  hail  the  repeating 
Of  his  Ecclecns  Buiccr,  and  his  liubin  Adair! 

Fancy's  Sketch!    such  fine  shakes   and    such  comic 
expression 

He'll  give  it ;  —  'twill  put  all  the  fiddles  in  tone  ! 
And  let  Olliff  (clean-shaved,  with  a  new  hero  dress  on), 
Play  Baron  Toraldi  "for  that  night  alone." 

If  you  wish  to  give  all  }'Our  acquaintances  delight,  or 
Fill  your  house  to  the  brim  —  take  this  hint  —  it 
will  go ; 

The  humour  will  make  e'en  vour  Candles  bum  brighter, 
And  crowd  every  seat  —  to  the  very  fourth  row. 

Besides  cntrc-nous,  there's  another  good  reason  — 
Perhaps  'twill  the  proud  heart  of  Beekman"  beguile ; 

He  mag  promise  to  lower  the  rent  the  next  season, 
And,  for  once  in  his  life, — take  his  hat  off  and  smile. 


Ckoakek,  Junior. 


A  LAMENT  FOR  GREAT  ONES  DEPARTED. 


"  Hung  be  the  Heavens  with  black." 

Sh&kspeare. 

There  is  a  gloom  on  every  brow, 

A  sadness  in  each  face  we  see  : 
The  City  Hall  is  lonely  now, 

The  Franklin  Bank77  looks  wearily  ! 

The  Surgeon's  Hall78  in  Barclay  street, 

Wears  to  the  eye  a  ghastlier  hue  ! 
And  Staten  Island's  Summer-seat 

lias  lost  its  best  attraction  too  ! 

"Well  may  we  mourn  —  a  stage  and  four 
(Our  curse  upon  the  rogue  that  drove  it ! ) 

From  out  our  City  lately  bore 

All  that  adorn  — and  grace,  and  love  it, 

Ah  !  little  knew  each  scoundrel  horse 

How  much  they  vex'd,  and  griev'd,  and  marred  us, 
They  cared  not  sixpence  for  the  loss 

We  feel  in  Colden  and  Bogardus. 


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THE  CROAKERS. 


And  Doctor  Mitchill,  LL.  L\, 

And  Tompkins,79  Lord  of  Staten  Isle  ! 
Hush'd  be  the  strain  of  mirth  and  glee, 

'Twere  treason  now  to  laugh  or  smile. 

Long  has  proud  Albany,  elate, 

Reared  her  two  steeples80  high  in  air, 

And  boasted  that  she  ruled  the  state, 
Because  the  Governor  liccs  there  ! 

But  loftier  now  will  be  her  tone, 

To  know  —  within  her  walls  are  met 

The  brightest  gems  that  ever  shone 
Upon  a  city's  coronet. 

Tho'  heavy  is  our  load  of  pain, 

To  feel  that  fate  has  thus  bereft  us, 

Some  consolations  yet  remain. 
For  Dickey  Biker  still  is  left  us ! 

And  Hope,  with  smile  and  gesture  proud, 
1 'oints  to  a  day  of  triumph  nigh, 

When  like  a  sunbeam  from  the  cloud 
That  dims,  awhile,  an  April  sky, 

Our  champions  shall  again  return. 

Their  pockets  with  new  honours  crowded 

Then  every  heart  will  cease  to  mourn. 
And  hats  no  more  in  crape  be  shrouded. 


?  1 


THE  CROAKERS. 


The  Park  shall  throng  with  merry  feet, 
And  hoys  and  beauties  hasten  there, 

To  place  the  new  Judge  on  his  seat ! 
And  hail  the  great  Bogardus,  Mayor  ! 


Croaker  &  Co. 


TO  CAPTAIN  SEAM  AX  WEEKS, 

CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  TENTH  WARD  INDEPENDENT  ELECTORS. 


Captain  Weeks  —  your  right  hand  —  though  I  never 
have  seen  it, 
I  shake  it,  on  paper,  full  ten  times  a  day. 
I  love  jour  tenth  ward,  and  I  wish  I  lived  in  it ; 

Do  you  know  any  house  there  to  let  against  May? 
I  don't  mind  what  the  rent  is,  so  long  as  I  get  off 
From  these  party-mad  beings  —  these  tongues  with- 
out heads ! 

I'm  asham'd  to  be  seen,  sir,  among  such  a  set  of 
Clintonians,  Tammanies,81  Coodics,  and  Feds  ! 

Besides,  I'm  nervous,  and  can't  bear  the  racket 

These  gentlemen  make  when  they're  begging  for  votes; 
There's  John  Haff,M  and  Ben  Bailey,83  and  Christian,84 
and  Bracket,85 
Only  think  what  fine  music  must  come  from  their 
throats ! 

Colonel  Warner81  calls  Clinton  "a  star  in  tlx-  banner," 
Ma  pes 87  swears  by  Ins  sword-knot  he'll  ruin  us  all ! 

While  Meigs  flashes  out  in  his  tine  elassic  manner, 
"  The  meteor  gorgon  of  Clinton  mast  fall!  "  . 


5 


47 


THE  CROAKERS. 


41 


In  vain,  I  endeavor  to  give  'em  a  hint  on 

Sense,  reason,  or  temper  —  they  laugh  at  it  all : 
For  sense  is  nonsense,  when  it  makes  against  Clinton, 

And  reason  is  treason  in  Tammany  Hall.88 
So  I  mean  (though  I  fear  I  shall  seem  unto  some  a 

Strange,  ohstinatc,  odd-headed  kind  of  an  elf) 
To  strike  my  old  tent  in  the  fourth,  and  become  a 

"  Tenth  ward  independent  elector"  myself. 

Croaker. 


6 


ABSTRACT 

OF  TIIK  .SriUiF.ON-Cr.NKHAL  S^  HKI'ORT. 


The  Surgeon-General  by  brevet, 

With  zeal  for  public  service  burning, 
Thinks  this  a  happy  time  to  get 

Another  chance  to  show  his  learning ; 
lie  has  in  consequence  collected 

His  wits —  and  stewed  them  in  retorts; 
By  distillation  thus  perfected, 

lie  hopes  to  shine  —  and  so  reports: 

That  he  has  searched  authorities 

From  Johnson  down  to  Ashe  and  Shelley, 
And  finds  that  a  Militia  is  — 

What  he  is  now  about  to  tell  ye ; 
Militia  means  —  such  citizens 

As  e'en  in  peace  are  kept  campaigning, 
The  gallant  souls  that  shoulder  guns  ! 

And  twice  a  year  go  out  a-trainiug. 


T1IE  CROAKERS. 

This  point  being  fix'd,  we  must,  I  think,  sir, 

Proceed  unto  the  second  part,  — 
Entitled  Grog  —  a  kind  of  drink,  sir, 

Which  by  its  action  on  the  heart, 
Makes  men  so  brave,  they  dare  attack 

A  bastion  at  its  angle  salient ; 
This  is  a  well-established  fact  — 

The  very  proverb  says  — pot-valiant. 

Grog  —  I'll  define  it  in  a  minute  — 

Take  gin,  rum,  whiskey  or  peach  brandy, 
Put  but  a  little  water  in  it, 

And  that  is  Grog  —  now  understand  me, 
I  mean  to  say,  that  should  the  spirit 

Be  left  out  by  some  careless  dog  — 
It  is  —  I  wish  the  world  may  hear  it ! 

It  is  plain  water,  and  not  Grog. 

Having  precisely  fix'd  what  Grog  is, 

(My  reas'ning,  sir,  that  question  settles  !) 
"We  next  must  ascertain  what  Prog  is  — 

~Now  Prog,  in  vulgar  phrase,  is  victuals : 
This  will  embrace  all  kinds  of  food, 

A\  nieh  on  the  smoking  board  can  charm  y 
And  by  digestion  furnish  blood ; 

A  thing  essential  in  any  army  ! 


44 


THE  CROAKERS. 


These  things  should  all  be  swallowed  warm, 

For  heat,  digestion  much  facilitates  ; 
Cold  is  a  tonic,  and  does  harm  : 

A  tonic  always,  sir,  debilitates. 
My  pi' ii  then  is  to  raise,  as  fast 

As  possible,  a  corps  of  cooks, 
And  drill  them  daily  from  the  last 

Editions  of  my  cookery  books  ! 

Done  into  English,  and  likewise  into  verse,  by 

Croakbb  &  Co. 


TO  AN  ELDERLY  C( X^LKTTE. 


•  •  I'tircius  junctas  quatiunt  fax slras. 

Horace,  Book  I,  Ode 

Ah  !  Chloe  !00  no  more  at  each  party  and  ball, 

You  shine  the  gay  queen  of  the  hour; 
The  lip,  that  alluringly  smiled  upon  all, 

Finds  none  to  acknowledge  its  power  : 
No  longer  the  hearts  of  the  dandies  you  break, 

No  poet  adores  you  in  numbers; 
No  billets-doux  sweeten,  nor  serenades  break, 

The  peaceful  repose  of  your  slumbers. 

Dissipation  has  clouded  those  eloquent  eyes, 

That  sparkled  like  gems  of  the  ocean; 
Thy  bosom  is  fair  —  but  its  billowy  rise 

Awakens  no  kindred  commotion  : 
And  pale  are  those  rubies  of  rapture,  where  Love 

Sad  showered  his  sweetest  of  blisses  ; 
And  the  wrinkles  which  time  has  implanted  abov 

Are  cover'd  in  vain  with  false  tresses. 


4G  THE  CROAKERS. 

The  autumn  is  on  thee  —  foil  scandal  prepares 

To  hasten  the  wane  of  thy  glory: 
Too  soon  disappointment  will  hand  thee  down  stairs, 

And  old  maidenhood  end  the  sad  story  : 
For  me  —  long  eseaped  from  your  trammels  —  I  choose 

To  enlist  in  the  new  corps  of  jokers; 
Abandoning  Chloe,  I  kneel  to  the  Muse, 

And,  instead  of  love-ditties,  write  Croakers. 

C. 


J-UDCK    M  LA  CKST  iJX  E 


TO    ESQUIRE. 


Come,  shut  up  your  Blackstone,  and  sparkle  again 

The  leader  and  light  of  our  classical  revels ; 
"While  statutes  and  cases  bewilder  your  brain, 

.No  wonder  you're  vex'd,  and  heset  with  hlue  devils  : 
But  a  change  in  your  diet  will  banish  the  blues ; 

Then  come,  my  old  chum,  to  our  banquet  sublime  ; 
Our  wine  shall  be  caught  from  the  lips  of  the  Muse, 

And  each  plate  and  tureen  shall  be  detug'd  in  rhyme. 

Scott,  from  old  Albin,  shall  furnish  the  dishes 

With  wild  fowl  and  ven'son  that  none  can  surpass  : 
And  Mitehill,  who  sung  the  amours  of  the  fishes, 

Shall  fetch  his  most  excpiisite  tom-cod  and  bass. 
Leigh  Hunt  shall  select,  at  his  Hampstead  Parnassus, 

Fine  greens,  from  the  hot-bed,  the  table  to  cheer; 
And  Wordsworth  shall  carry  whole  bowls  of  molasses, 

Diluted  with  water  from  sweet  Windermere. 


48  THE  CROAKERS. 

To  rouse  the  dull  fancy,  and  give  one  an  appetite, 

Black  wormwood  bitters  Lord  Byron  shall  bear ; 
And  Montgomery  bring(to  consumptives  a  happy  sight.) 

Tepid  soup-meagre,  and  lean  eapillaire. 
Coleman  shall  sparkle  in  old  bottled  cider, 

Boast-beef  and  potatoes  friend  Crabbe  shall  supply, 
Bogers  shall  hash  us  an  olla  podrida, 

And  the  best  of  "fat  cabbage"  from  Bauldiug  we'll  buy. 

My  Tennant  —  free,  fanciful,  laughing  and  lofty. 

Shall  pour  out  tokay  and  Scotch  whiskey  like  rain  ; 
Southey  shall  sober  our  spirits  with  coffee, 

And  Horace  in  London  flash  up  in  Champagne. 
Tom  Campbell  shall  cheer  us  with  rosy  Madeira, 

Beiin'd  by  long-keeping  —  rich,  sparkling,  and  pure, 
And  Moore,  pour  <-has*c  raff,  to  each  one  shall  bear  a 

Lip-witching  bumper  of  par/ait  amour. 

Then  come  to  our  banquet  —  Oh  !  how  can  you  pause 

A  moment  between  merry  rhyme  and  dull  reason  ? 
Preferring  the  wit-blighting  Spirit  < if  Laws 

To  the  spirit  of  verse,  is  poetical  treason! 
Judge  l'hu'bus  will  certainly  issue  his  writ, 

No  quirk  or  evasion  your  cause  can  make  good,  man  ; 
Only  think  what  you'll  sutler,  when  sentene'd  to  sit 

And  be  kept  broad  awake  till  you've  read  the  Back- 
woodman. 

Ciioakkr  &  Co. 


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Collation 


19  Calotypes,  as  follows,  after  pages:  8,  12(2),  28,  38,  40, 
50,  68,  72, 132(2),  (140(2)*142(2),  144,  158, 160,  178; 

Lithograph  with  Photographic  connection:  P.  98; 

Engraving  from  a  daguerreotype:  P.  172; 
- — .   —  , 

Missing  page  before  P.  138; 

Missing  plate  after  P.  146,  154. 

^Photograph  made  when  the  college  was  located  at 
Church  Street  &  Park  Place.  "A  print  by  H.H.  Snelli- 
ng  from  a  negative  by  L.E.  Walker,  showing  the  old 
Columbia  College  building  in  the  winter  of  1856-7, 
just  before  the  college  moved  uptown  to  its  new  quar- 
ters on  Fiftieth  Street.  .  .this  shows  Park  Place  being 
cut  through  the  old  campus.  "(THE  COLUMBIA  HIS- 
TORICAL  PORTRAIT  OF  NEW  YORK  by  Kouwenho- 
ven  P.  256) 


Painted  ty  Six  i'.Iawience  P  RA. 


ODE  TO  IMPUDENCE. 


"Integer  vilic,  scelerisque jourus." 

Horace,  Book  I,  Ode  22. 

The  man  who  wears  a  brazen  face, 

Quite  a  son  aise,  his  glass  may  quaff; 
And  whether  in,  or  out  of  place, 

May  twirl  his  stick,  and  laugh  ! 
Useless  to  him  the  broad  doubloon, 

Red  note,  or  dollar  of  the  mill ; 
Tho'  all  his  gold  be  in  the  moon, 

His  brass  is  current  money  still. 
Thus  —  when  my  cash  was  at  low  water, 

At  Mblo's91  I  sat  down  to  dine  ; 
And,  after  a  tremendous  slaughter 

Among  the  wild-fowl  and  the  wine, 
The  bill  before  mine  eyes  was  plac'd  — 

When,  slightly  turning  round  my  bead, 
"  Charge  it,"  cried  I — the  man  amaz'd  ! 

Star'd  —  made  his  congee  —  and  obey'd. 
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THE  CROAKERS. 


Oli !  bear  me  to  some  forest  thick, 

"Where  wampum'd  Ohoctaws  prowl  alone ; 
"Where  ne'er  was  heard  the  name  of  tick, 

And  bankrupt  laws  are  quite  unknown  : 
Or  to  some  shop,  by  bucks  abhorr'd, 

Where  to  the  longing  pauper's  sorrow, 
The  curst  inscription  decks  the  board 

Of  "  Pay  to-day  and  trust  to-morrow :' ' 
Or  plunge  me  in  the  dungeon  tower ; 

With  bolts  and  turnkeys  blast  mine  eyes; 
While,  call'd  from  death  by  Marshall's  power, 

The  ghosts  of  murdered  debts  arise ! 
The  easy  dupes,  I'll  wheedle  still, 

With  looks  of  brass  and  words  of  honey ; 
And  having  scor'd  a  decent  bill, 

Pay  off  my  impudence  for  money. 

Croaker  &  Co. 


JOHN    MARSHALL  T.LJ). 


TO  MRS.  BARNES.92 


Dear  Ma'am  —  We  seldom  take  the  pen 

To  praise,  for  whim  and  jest  our  trade  is  ; 
We're  used  to  deal  with  gentlemen, 
To  spatter  folly's  skirts,  and  then 

We're  somewhat  bashful  with  the  ladies. 

Nor  is  it  meant  to  give  advice  ; 

We  dare  not  take  so  much  upon  us ; 
But  merely  wish,  in  phrase  concise, 
To  beg  you,  Ma'am,  and  Mr.  Price,9;i 

For  God's  sake,  to  have  mercy  on  us. 

Oh  !  wave  again  thy  wand  of  power, 

No  more  in  melo-dramas  whine, 
Nor  toil  Aladdin's  lamp  to  scour, 
Nor  dance  fandangoes  by  the  hour 
To  Morgiana's  tambourine ! 


THE  CROAKERS. 


Think,  lady,  what  we're  doom'd  to  feel ; 

By  heaven  !  'twould  rouse  the  wrath  of  stoics 
To  see  the  queen  of  sorrows  deal 
In  thundering,  lofty  —  low,  by  Shiell, 

Or  mad  Mathurin's  mock-heroics. 

Away  with  passion's  withering  kiss; 

A  purer  spell  he  thine  to  win  us; 
Unlock  the  fount  of  holiness, 
While  gentle  pity  weeps  in  bliss, 

And  hearts  throb  sweetly-sad  within  us. 

Or  call  those  smiles  again  to  thee 

That  shone  upon  the  lip  that  wore  them, 

Like  sun-drops  on  a  summer-  sea 

When  w  aters  ripple  pleasantly 

To  wanton  winds  that  flutter  o'er  them. 

When  pity  wears  her  willow  wreath, 

Let  I)esdemona*s  woes  be  seen  ; 
Sweet  Beverly's  confiding  faith, 
Or  Juliet,  loving  on  in  death, 

Or  uncomplaining  Imogen. 

"When  wit  and  mirth  their  temples  bind, 
With  thistle-shafts,  o'erhung  with  flowers: 

Then  quaint  and  merry  Rosalind, 

Beatrice,  with  her  April  mind, 
And  Dinah's  simple  heart  be  ours. 


TUE  CROAKERS. 


For  long-  thy  modest  orb  has  been 

Eclipsed  by  heartless  cold  parade  ; 
So  sinks  the  light  of  evening's  queen 
When  the  dull  earth  intrudes  between 
Her  beauties  from  the  sun  to  shade. 

Let  fashion's  worthless  plaudits  rise 

At  the  deep  tone,  and  practised  start;9' 
Be  thine,  true  feeling's  stifled  sighs, 
Tears  wrung  from  stern  and  stubborn  eyes, 
And  smiles,  that  sparkle  from  the  heart. 

Croaker  & 


A  LICK  AT  A  FASHIONABLE  FOLLY 

WHICH  REIGNS  AMONG  THE  SONS  A  Nil  HAIG11TERS  OF  THE  IIICHER  OBDKR, 
IN  THE  RENOWNED  CITY  OF  GOTHAM,  AT  THIS  PRESENT  WRITING. 

TO  SIMON," 

THE  COOK  COMME  IL  FAUT. 


Dear  Simon  !  Prince  of  pastry  cooks  ! 

Oysters,  and  ham,  and  cold  neat's  tongue  ! 
Pupil  of  Mitchill's  cookery  books! 

And  bosom  friend  of  old  and  young ! 
Sure  from  higher,  brighter  sphere, 

In  showers  of  gravy  thou  wert  hurl'd : 
To  aid  our  routs  ami  parties  here, 

And  grace  the  fashionable  world  ! 

Taught  by  thy  art,  we  closely  follow 

And  ape  the  English  lords  and  misses  — 
For  music,  we've  the  Black  Apollo, 

And  Mrs.  Poppleton96 —  for  kisses; 
"\Vc  borrow  all  the  rest,  you  know  ; 

Our  glass  from  Christie,97  for  the  time, 
Plate  from  our  Mends,  to  make  a  show  . 

And  cash,  to  pay  small  bills  from  Prime. 


THE  CROAKERS. 


"What  tlio'  Old  Squaretoea  will  not  bless  thee, 

lie  fears  your  power  and  dreads  your  bill ; 
Ma  and  the  "  pretty  dears  "  caress  thee, 

And  pat  thy  cheek,  and  love  thee  still. 
Oh  Simon  !  how  we  envy  thee ! 

"When  belles,  that  long  have  frown'd  on  all, 
Greet  thee  with  smiles,  and  bend  the  knee, 

To  beg  you'll  help  them  give  a  ball. 

Though  ungenteel  it  is  to  think, 

For  thought  affects  the  nerves  and  brain  ! 
Yet  oft  we  think  of  thee,  and  drink 

Thy  health  in  Lynch's  best  champaigne : 
'Tis  pity  that  thy  signal  merit 

Should  slumber  in  so  low  a  station  : 
Act,  Simon,  like  a  lad  of  spirit, 

And  thou,  in  time,  may'st  rule  the  nation. 

Break  up  your  Saturdays  "  At  home" 

Cut  Guinea  and  your  sable  clan, 
Buy  a  new  eye-glass,  and  become 

A  dandy  and  a  gentleman  : 
You  must  speak  French,  and  make  a  bow, 

Ten  lessons  are  enough  for  that, 
And  Leavenworth  will  teach  you  how 

To  wear  your  corsets  and  cravat ! 


THE  CROAKERS. 


Throw  all  your  chambers  into  one, 

Hire  fiddlers,  glasses,  barons98  too, 
And  then  invite  the  whole  haut-ton, 

Ask  Hosack,  he  can  tell  you  who. 
The  great  that  are  and  wish  to  be. 

Within  your  brilliant  rooms  will  meet, 
And  belles,  of  high  and  low  degree, 

From  Broadway  up  to  Cherry  street ! 

This  will  insure  you  free  admission 

To  all  our  routs  for  years  to  come, 
And  when  you  die,  a  long  procession 

Of  dandies  shall  surround  your  tomb. 
We'll  raise  an  almond  statue  where 

In  dust  your  honoured  head  reposes, 
Mothers  shall  lead  their  daughters  there 

And  bid  them  twine  your  bust  with  roses. 

Croakek  &  Co. 


A  LOVING  EPISTLE 


TO  MR.  WILLIAM  COBBETT,    OF  NORTH  HEMPSTEAD,  LONG 
ISLAND.09 


"  Belov'd  of  Heaven  !  (lie  smiling  Muse  shall  shed 
Her  moonlight  halo  on  thy  beauteous  head!  " 

Campbell's  Pleasures  of  Hope. 

Pride,  boast  and.  glory  of  each  hemisphere  ! 

Well  known,  andlov'dinboth — great  Cobbett,  hail ! 
Hero  of  Botley  there,  and  Hempstead  here  — 

Of  Newgate,  and  a  Pennsylvania  jail. 
Long  sball  this  grateful  nation  bless  the  hour, 

When  by  the  beadle  and  your  debts  pursue!, 
The  victim,  like  fam'd  Barrington,100  of  power, 

"  You  left  your  country  for  your  country's  good!  " 

Terror  of  Borough-mongers,  Banks  and  Crowns ! 

Tborburn  the  seedsman,  and  Lord  Castlereagh  ! 
Potato-tops  fall  withering  at  your  frowns  — 

Grand  Ruta  Baga  Turnip  of  your  day  ! 
Banish  the  memory  of  the  Lockhart's  cane, 

And  Philadelphia  pole-cats  from  your  mind  ; 
Let  the  world  scoff —  still  you  and  Hunt  remain  — 

Yourselves  a  host  —  the  envy  of  mankind  ! 
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58 


THE  CROAKERS. 


"Whether,  as  once  in  Peter  Porcupine, 

You  curse  the  country,  whose  free  air  your  breathe, 
Or,  as  plain  William  Cubbed  toil  to  twine 

Around  your  brows  sedition's  poison'd  wreath, 
Or,  in  your  letter  to  Sir  Francis,101  tear 

All  mortal  ties  asunder  with  your  pen, 
AVc  trace  you,  gentle  spirit,  every  where, 

And  greet  you,  first  of  scribblers  and  of  men. 

Well  may  our  hearts  with  pride  and  pleasure  swell, 

To  know  that  face  to  face  we  soon  shall  meet: 
We'll  gaze  upon  you  as  you  stand  and  sell 

Grammars  and  Garden  Seeds  in  Fulton  street!102 
And  praise  your  book  that  tells  about  the  weather, 

"Our  laws,  religion,  hoys  and  things"  to  boot, 
Where  your  immortal  talents  teach  together 

Turnips  and  "young  ideas  how  to  shoot." 

In  recompense,  that  j'ou've  designed  to  make 

Choice  of  our  soil  above  all  other  lands, 
A  purse  we'll  raise  to  pay  your  debts,  and  take 

Your  unsold  Registers  oft'  your  hands. 
For  this  we  ask  that  you,  for  once,  will  show 

Some  gratitude,  and,  if  you  can,  be  civil ; 
Born  all  your  books,  sell  all  your  pigs,  and  go  — 

No  matter  where  r—  to  England,  or  the  devil ! ! 


Cboakeb  &  Co. 


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BY  JOSEPH  RODMAN  DRAKE. 
I. 

When  Freedom  from  her  mountain  height 

Unfurled  her  standard  to  the  air, 
She  tore  the  azure  robe  of  night, 

And  set  the  stars  of  glory  there. 
She  mingled  with  its  gorgeous  dyes 
The  milky  baldric  of  the  skies, 
And  striped  its  pure  celestial  white 
With  streaking  of  the  morning  light ; 
Then  from  his  mansion  in  the  sun 
She  called  her  eagle-hearer  down, 
And  gave  into  his  mighty  hand 
The  symbol  of  her  chosen  land. 


THE  AMERICAN  FLAG.103 


When  Freedom,  from  her  mountain  height, 
Unfurl'd  her  standard  to  the  air, 

She  tore  the  azure  robe  of  night, 
And  set  the  stars  of  glory  there  ! 

She  mingled  with  its  gorgeous  dyes 

The  milky  baldric  of  the  skies, 

And  striped  its  pure  celestial  white 

With  streakings  of  the  morning  light; 

Then,  from  his  mansion  in  the  sun, 

She  call'd  her  eagle  bearer  dow  n, 

And  gave  into  his  mighty  hand 

The  symbol  of  her  chosen  land  ! 

Majestic  monarch  of  the  cloud  ! 

Who  rear'st  aloft  thy  regal  form, 
To  hear  the  tempest-tramping  loud, 
And  see  the  lightningdances  driven, 

When  stride  the  warriors  of  the  storm, 
And  rolls  the  thunder-drum  of  heaven  ! 


THE  CROAKERS. 


Child  of  the  Sun  !  to  thee  'tis  given 

To  guard  the  banner  of  the  free, 
To  hover  in  the  sulphur  smoke, 
To  ward  away  the  battle  stroke, 
And  bid  its  Mendings  shine  afar, 
Like  rainbow  s  on  the  cloud  of  war, 
The  harbingers  of  victory  ! 


Flag  of  the  brave  !  thy  folds  shall  fly, 
The  sign  of  hope  and  triumph  high  ! 
When  speaks  the  signal  trumpet-tone, 
And  the  long  line  comes  gleaming  on, 
(Ere  yet  the  life-blood,  warm  and  wet, 
Has  dim'd  the  glist'ning  bayonet,) 
Each  soldier's  eye  shall  brightly  turn 
To  where  thy  meteor-glories  burn, 
And,  as  his  springing  steps  advance, 
Catch  war  and  vengeance  from  the  glanc 
And  when  the  cannon-mouthings  loud, 
Heave  in  wild  wreaths  the  battle-shroud, 
And  gory  sabres  rise  and  fall. 
Like  shoots  of  flame  on  midnight's  pall 
There  shall  thy  victor-glances  glow, 

And  cowering  foes  shall  sink  beneath, 
Each  gallant  arm  that  strikes  below, 

The  lovely  messenger  of  death. 


T  II  E    A  M  E  R  T  C  A  N    F  L  AG. 


To  hear  tlie  tempest-trumpings  loud, 


And  see  the  lightning-lances  driven, 
When  stride  the  warriors  of  the  storm, 
And  rolls  the  thunder-drum  of  heaven ! 
Child  of  the  sun !   to  thee  'tis  given 

To  guard  the  banner  of  the  free  ! 
To  hover  in  the  sulphur  smoke, 
To  ward  away  the  battle  stroke, 
And  bid  its  blendings  shine  afar, 
Like  rainbows  on  the  cloud  of  war— 

The  harbingers  of  victory  ! 


THE    AMERICAN    F  L  A  G 


Flag  of  the  brave !  thy  folds  shall  fly, 
The  sign  of  hope  and  triumph  high ; 
When  speaks  the  trumpet's  signal  tone, 
And  the  long  line  comes  gleaming  on, 
Ere  yet  the  life-blood,  warm  and  wet, 
Has  dimm'd  the  glistening  bayonet, 
Each  soldier's  eye  shall  brightly  turn 
To  where  thy  sty-born  glories  burn  ; 
And  as  his  springing  steps  advance, 
Catch   war  and  vengeance  from  the  glance: 
And  when  the  cannon-mouthings  loud 
Heave  in  wild  wreaths  the  battle-shroud, 
And  gory  sabres  rise  and  fall 
Like  shoots  of  flame  on  midnight's  pall — 

Then  shall  thy  meteor-glances  glow, 
And  cowering  foes  shall  sink  beneath 

Each  gallant  arm  that  strikes  below 


That  lovely  messenger  of  death  ! 


T  11  E    A  M  E  BICAN    F  LAG. 


Flag  of  the  seas !  on  ocean's  wave, 
Thy  stars  shall  glitter  o'er  the  brave ; 
When  death,  careering  on  the  gale, 
Sweeps  darkly  round  the  bellied  sail, 
And  frighted  waves  rush  wildly  back 
Before  the  broadside's  reeling  rack, 
Each  dying  wanderer  of  the  sea 
Shall  look  at  once  to  heaven  and  thee, 
And  smile  to  see  thy  splendors  fly 
In  triumph  o'er  his  closing  eye ! 

Flag  of  the  free  heart's  hope  and  home, 
By  angel  hands  to  valor  given, 

Thy  stars  have  lit  the  welkin  dome, 
And  all  thy  hues  were  born  in  heaven ! 

Forever  float  that  standard  sheet 
Where  breathes  the  foe  that  falls  before  us, 

With  Freedom's  soil  beneath  our  feet. 


And  Freedom's  banner  streaming  o'er  us ! 


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ring-  of  the  seas  !  on  ocean's  wave 
Thy  star  shall  glitter  o'er  the  brave, 
"When  Death,  careering  on  the  gale, 
Sweeps  darkly  round  the  bellied  sail, 
And  frighted  waves  rush  wildly  back 
Before  the  broad-sides  reeling  rack. 
Tbe  dying  wanderer  of  the  sea 
Shall  look,  at  once,  to  heaven  and  thee, 
And  smile,  to  see  thy  splendours  fly, 
In  triumph,  o'er  his  closing  eye. 

Flag  of  the  free  heart's  only  home, 

By  angel  hands  to  valour  given  ! 
Thy  stars  have  lit  the  welkin  dome 

And  all  thy  hues  were  born  in  heaven  ! 
Forever  float  that  standard  sheet ! 104 

Where  breathes  the  foe  but  falls  before  us  ? 
With  Freedom's  soil  beneath  our  feet, 

And  Freedom's  banner  streaming  o'er  us  ! 


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THE  FORUMS.105 


"  You  trill  recollect,  gentlemen,  your  proper  pauses,  repetitions,  hum's, 
lia's,  and  interjections  —  and  you,  the  speaker,  remember  to  be  miyhty  dull  — 
and  you,  the  audience,  to  fall  asleep!" 

Foote. 

'Tis  over  —  the  fatal  hour  has  come, 
The  voice  of  eloquence  is  dumb, 

Mute  are  the  members  of  the  Forum ! 
We've  shed  what  tears  we  had  to  spare, 
There  now  remains  the  pious  care 

Of  chaunting  a  sad  requiem  o'er  'em. 

The  Roman  drank  the  Tybcr's  wave, 
Ilissus'  stream  its  virtues  gave 

To  bid  the  Grecian  live  forever ; 
Our  Forum  orators  a  draught 
Of  greater  potency  have  quaff' d, 

Sparkling  and  pure  from  the  North  River! 


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THE  CROAKERS. 


Proudly  our  bosoms  beat  to  claim 
Communion  with  our  country's  fame, 
At  mention  of  each  gallant  name 

From  Bunker's  Hill  to  Chippewa  ! 
All,  who,  on  battle-field  or  wave, 
Have  met  the  death  that  waits  the  brave, 
Or  peal'd,  above  their  foeman's  grave, 

The  victor's  wild  hurrah  ! 

And  he,  who  quell'd  a  tyrant  king, 

And  "grasped  the  lightning's  fiery  wing," 

Was  nurtur'd  in  our  country's  bowers  ; 
But  now,  a  brighter  gem  is  set 
Upon  her  star-wrought  coronet, 

The  world's  first  orators  are  ours  ! 

The  name  of  every  Forum  chief 106 
Shall  gleam  upon  our  history's  leaf, 

Circled  with  glory's  fadeless  fires; 
And  poet's  pen  and  painter's  pallet 
Shall  tell  of  William  Paxson  Hallett 

And  Richard  Varick  Dey —  Esquires  ! ! 

Resort  of  fashion,  beauty,  taste  — 
The  Forum  Hall  was  nightly  grae'd 
With  all  who  blush'd  their  hours  to  waste 

At  balls  —  and  such  ungodly  places  ; 
And  Quaker  girls  were  there  allow'd 
To  show,  among  the  motly  crowd. 

Their  sweet  blue  eyes  and  pretty  faces. 


THE  CROAKERS. 


And  thither  all  our  wise  ones  went, 
On  charity  and  learning  bent, 

With  open  ears  —  and  purses  willing  — 
Where  they  could  dry  the  orphan's  tear, 
And  see  the  world,  and  speeches  hear, 

All  —  11  for  a  matter  of  tiro  shilling!" 

Let  Envy  drop  her  raven  quill, 
Let  Slander's  venom'd  lip  be  still, 

And  hush'd  Detraction's  croaking  song  ! 
That  dar'd,  devoid  of  taste  and  sense, 
To  call  these  sons  of  Eloquence, 

A  stammering,  spouting,  schoolboy  throng 

'Tis  false —  for  they  in  grave  debate 
Weigh'd  mighty  themes  of  church  and  state, 

With  words  of  power,  and  looks  of  sages  ; 
While,  far-diffused,  their  gracious  smile 
Sooth'd  Bony  in  his  prison  isle, 

And  Turkish  wives  in  Ilaram's  cages  ! 

Heaven  bless  'em  —  for  their  generous  pity 
Toil'd  hard  to  light  our  darkened  city, 

With  that  firm  zeal  that  never  flinches  ; 
And  long,  to  prove  the  love  they  bore  us, 
With  "  more  lust  words  "  they  linger'd  o'er  us, 

And  like  a  tom-cat,  died  by  inches  !  ! 

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ODE  TO  FORTUNE. 


Fair  lady  with  the  handag'd  eye  ! 

I'll  pardon  all  thy  scurvy  tricks, 
So  thou  wilt  cut  me  and  deny 

Alike  thy  kisses  and  thy  kicks  : 
I'm  quite  contented  as  I  am  — 

Have  cash  to  keep  my  duns  at  bay, 
Can  choose  between  beef  steaks  and  ham, 

And  drink  Madeira  every  day. 


My  station  is  the  middle  rank, 

My  fortune  — just  a  competence  — 
Ten  thousand  in  the  Franklin  Bank, 

And  twenty  in  the  six  per  cents  : 
No  amorous  chains  my  heart  enthrall, 

I  neither  borrow,  lend,  nor  sell ; 
Fearless  I  roam  the  City  Hall, 

And  bite  my  thumb  at  Mr.  Bell.107 


TilK  CROAKERS. 


Tlie  horse  that  twice  a  year  I  ride, 

At  Mother  Dawson's108  eats  his  till  : 
My  hooks  at  Goodrich's109  ahide, 

My  country  seat  is  Wehawk  hill; 
My  morning  lounge  is  Easthurn's110  shop, 

At  roppleton's  I  take  my  lunch; 
Xihlo  prepares  my  mutton  chop, 

And  Jennings111  makes  my  whiskey  punch. 

When  merry,  I  the  hours  amuse 

By  squibbing  Bucktails,  Guards,  and  Balls 
And  when  I'm  troubled  with  the  hlues, 

Damn  Clinton,  and  ahuse  Canals: 
Then  Fortune  !  since  I  ask  no  prize, 

At  least  preserve  me  from  thy  frown; 
The  man  who  don't  attempt  to  rise, 

'Twere  cruelty  to  tumble  down. 

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THE  LOVE  OF  NOTORIETY. 


1 ' ' Tis pleasant,  through  the  loopholes  of  retreat, 
To  peep  at  such  a  world." 

Cowper. 

There  are  laurels  our  temples  throb  warmly  to  claim, 

Uuwet  by  the  blood-dripping  fingers  of  Avar  ; 
And  as  dear  to  the  heart  are  the  whispers  of  fame, 

As  the  blasts  of  her  bugle  rang  fiercely  and  far. 
The  death-dirge  is  sung  o'er  the  warrior's  tomb, 

Ere  the  world  to  his  valor  its  homage  will  give  : 
But  the  feathers  that  form  Notoriety's  plume, 

Are  plucked  in  the  sunshine,  and  bright  while  we  live. 
There's  a  wonderful  charm  in  that  sort  of  renown, 
Which  consists  in  becoming  uthe  tall;  of  the  town  ;  " 
'Tis  a  pleasure  which  none  but  "your  truly  great  "  feels, 
To  be  followed  about  by  a  mob  at  one's  heels; 
And  to  hear,  from  the  gazing  and  mouth-open  throng, 
The  dear  words,  " that's  he,"  as  one  trudges  along; 
While  Beauty,  all  anxious,  stands  up  on  tip-toes, 
Leans  on  her  beau's  shoulders,  and  lisps  "  there  he  goes." 


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THE  CROAKERS. 


Fortius,  the  young  Dandy,  half  whalebone,  half  starch, 
Parades  Broadway,  with  the  true  Steuben  march; 
A  new  species  of  being  —  created,  they  say, 
By  nine  London  tailors,  who  ventured  one  day 
To  cabbage  a  spark  of  Promethean  tire, 
"Which  they  placed  in  a  German  doll  stiffeu'd  with  wire, 
And  formed  of  the  seare-erow  a  Dandy  divine. 
But  mum  about  tailors  —  I  have  n't  paid  mine. 

And  for  this,  little  Brummagem  mounts  with  a  smile, 
His  own  hackney  buggy  —  and  dashes  in  style 

From  some  livery  stable  to  Cato's112  hotel. 
And,  though  'tis  a  desperate  task  to  be  striving 
With  these  sons  of  John  Bull  in  the  science  of  driving. 

We  have  still  a  few  othcis  that  do  it  as  well. 
There  are,  too,  "par  example,"  'tis  joy  to  behold, 

With  their  Ilaytian  grooms  trotting  graceful  behind 
'em, 

In  their  lively  jackets  of  blue,  green  and  gold, 
Their bright-varnish'dhats,  and  the  laces  that  bind  'em, 

The  one's  an  Adonis  —  who  since  the  sad  day 

That  he  shot  at  himself,113  has  been  counted  no  more  ; 

The  other's  a  name  it  were  treason  to  say, 

A  very  great  man  — with  two  lamps111  at  his  door. 

Croakbb  &  Co. 


^  1 


When  the  Western  District  was  surveyed,  the  power  of  naming  the 
townships  was  entrusted  to  the  Surveyor-General.  Finding  the  Indian 
appellations  too  sonorous  and  poetical,  and  that  his  own  ear  was  not 
altogether  adapted  for  the  musical  combination  of  syllables,  this 
gentleman  hit  upon  a  plan,  which  for  laughable  absurdity,  has  never 
been  paralleled,  except  by  the  •'  Philosophy,"  "  Philanthropy,"  and 
"Big  Little  Dry"  system  of  Lewis  &  Clarke.  [I  was  no  oilier,  than 
selecting  from  Lempriere  and  the  British  Plutarch,  the  great  names 
which  those  works  commemorate.  This  plan  he  executed  with  the 
most  ridiculous  fidelity,  and  reared  for  himself  an  everlasting  monu- 
ment of  pedantry  and  folly. 

AN  ODE 

TO  SIMEON  DE  WITT,115  ESQUIRE, 

SURVEYOR-GENERAL. 


If,  on  the  deathless  page  of  Fame, 

The  warrior's  deeds  are  writ ; 
If  that  bright  record  hear  the  name 
Of  each,  whose  hallowed  brow  might  claim 

The  wreath  of  wisdom  or  of  wit : 
If  ever  they,  whose  cash  and  care 
Have  nnrst  the  infant  arts,  he  there, 

What  place  remains  for  thee  ? 
Who,  neither  warrior,  bard,  nor  sage, 
Hast  pour'd  on  this  benighted  age, 

The  blended  light  of  all  the  three. 


THE  CROAKERS. 


God-father  of*  tlie  christen'd  West  ! 

Thy  wonder-working  power 
Has  call'd  from  their  eternal  rest, 
The  poets  and  the  chiefs  wlio  hlest 

Old  Europe  in  her  happier  hour: 
Thou  givest,  to  the  buried  great, 
A  eitizen's  certificate, 

And,  aliens  now  no  more, 
The  children  of  each  classic  town 
Shall  emulate  their  sire's  renown 

In  science,  wisdom,  or  in  war. 

The  bard  who  treads  on  Homer's  earth 

Shall  mount  the  epic  throne, 
And  pour  like  breezes  of  the  north, 
Such  spirit-stirring  stanzas  forth 

As  Paulding  would  not  blush  to  own 
And  he,  who  casts  around  his  eyes 
Where  llniujxh  it' bright  stone-fences  rif 

Shall  swear  with  thrilling  joint, 
(As  German116  did,)  "we  yet  are  free, 
And  this  accursed  tax  should  be 

Resisted  at  the  bayonet's  point." 

What  man,  where  Scipio's  praises  skip 

From  every  rustling  leaf. 
But  girds  cold  iron  on  his  hip, 
With  "•shoulder  firelock!"  arms  his  lip, 

And  struts,  a  bold  militia  chief! 


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THE  CROAKERS. 


And  who,  that  breathes  where  Caio  lies, 
But  feels  the  Censor  spirit  rise 

At  folly's  idle  pranks; 
With  voice  that  tills  the  Congress  Halls, 
"Domestic  manufactures"  bawls,117 

And  damns  the  Dandies  and  the  Banks. 

Behold !  where  Junius  town  is  set, 

A  Brutus  is  the  Judge ; 
'Tis  true,  he  serves  the  Tarquin  yet, 
Still  winds  his  limbs  in  folly's  net, 

And  seems  a  very  patient  drudge. 
But  let  the  Despot  fall,  and  bright 
As  morning  from  the  shades  of  night, 

Forth  in  his  pride  he'll  stand, 
The  guard  and  glory  of  our  soil ! 
A  head  for  thought,  a  hand  for  toil, 

A  tongue  to  warn,  persuade,  command. 

Lo  !  Galen  sends  her  Doctors  round, 

Proficients  in  their  trade; 
Historians  are  in  Livy  found, 
Ulysses,  from  her  teeming  ground, 

Pours  Politicians,  ready  made  ; 
Fresh  Orators  in  Tally  rise, 
Nestor,  our  Counsellors  supplies, 

Wise,  vigilant,  and  close  ; 
Gracchus,  our  tavern-statesmen  rears, 
And  Milton  finds  us  pampldeteers, 

As  well  as  poets  by  the  groce. 


THE  CROAKERS. 


Surveyor  of  the  western  plains  ! 

The  sapient  work  is  thine  — 
Full-fledged,  it  sprung  from  out  thy  brains; 
One  added  touch,  alone,  remains 

To  consummate  the  grand  design, 
Select  a  town  —  and  christen  it 
With  thy  unrivali'd  name,  T)c  Witt ! 

Soon  shall  the  glorious  bantling  bless  us 
With  a  fair  progeny  of  Fools, 
To  till  our  colleges  and  schools 

With  tutors,  regents  and  professors. 

Oroakek  & 


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TO  E.  SIMPSON,  ESQ., 

MANAGER  OF  THE  THEATRE. 


Dear  Neddy,  since  the  day  is  near, 

Destined  to  close  your  late  campaign, 
'Tis  well  to  note  the  coming  year, 
And  learn  how  best  you  may  appear 

Before  the  public  eye  again. 
One  thing  at  least,  whate'er  you  do, 
For  God's  sake  give  us  something  new. 
For  though  your  actors  have  not  lost 

One  candle-snuff'  of  Thespian  fire, 
Yet  beauties,  that  delight  us  most, 

The  wearied  eye,  in  time,  will  tire. 
'Tis  thus  the  sated  gaze  of  taste 

Holland's118  drop-curtain  heedless  passes, 
And  thus  the  school-boy  loathes,  at  last, 

His  sugar-candy  and  molasses. 
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THE  CROAKERS. 


Now  if  you  will  but  take  advice, 

Bank  notes  shall  fall  like  summer  rain, 
And.  next  year,  you  and  Mr.  Price 

May  cut  your  Claret  for  Champagne. 
Just  hand  your  present  corps  down  stairs, 

Disband  them  all  —  and  then  create 
Another  army  from  the  players 

That  figure  on  the  stage  of  state. 
A  better  set  there  can  not  be 

For  dap-trap  and  stage-trickery. 
And  they'll  be  well  content  to  quit 

Their  present  post  for  higher  pay  ; 
For  if  they  but  good  salaries  get, 

It  matters  not  what  parts  they  play. 
You'll  have  no  quarrelling  about 
The  characters  you  deal  them  out  ; 
Their  public  acts  too  well  have  shown 
They  care  but  little  for  their  own. 

How  nicely  now  would  Spencer119  tit 

For  "Overreach"  and  "Bajazet;" 

Van  Buren,  tricky,  sly,  and  thin. 

Would  make  a  noble  "Harlequin;" 

Clinton  would  play  "King  Dick"  the  surly,120 

Thelearncd  "Pangloss,"  and  grave  "Lord  Burleigh;" 

"Woodworth  121  (whose  name  the  Muse  shall  hallow). 

Is  quite  at  home  in  "  Justice  Shallow  ;" 

And  slippery,  smooth-laced  Tallmadge  122  stands 

A  "Joseph  Surface"  to  your  hands. 


THE  CROAKERS. 


Lo  !  where  the  acting  council123  sits, 

A  grand  triumvirate  of  wits, 

Cut  out  express  by  Nature's  chisel, 

For  "Noodle,  Doodle  and  Lord  Grizzle  ;" 

The  3L  mix  rs  who  contriv'd  to  fill 

The  state  purse  from  the  steamboat1-'  till. 

Dressed  out  iu  turbans  and  white  sleeves, 

Would  figure  in  the  "Forty  Thieves." 

We'll  linger  with  delightful  grin, 

To  see  old  Root  in  "  Nipperkin  ;" 

And  gaze,  with  reverential  wonder, 

On  Skinner's125  sapient  face  in  "Ponder;" 

While  Peter  R  ,m  the  jovial  soul, 

Will  toss  oft'  "  Jobson's  "  brimming  bowl, 

Fit  for  a  Senator  to  swim  in  ; 
And  bravos,  rung  from  half  the  town, 
Shall  tell  the  fame  of  Walter  Bowne127 

In  "  Caeafogo,"  and  old  women. 

Our  City  Aldermen,  you  know. 

Are  conjurors,  ex  officio  ; 

And  with  the  Mayor  in  his  silk  breeches, 

Would  do  for  "Hecate  and  the  witches." 

Christian  and  Warner,123  long  the  scourges 

Of  Bucks  and  other  "vagroni  men,'" 
Would  find  in  "  Dogberry  and  Verges" 

Their  very  selves  restored  again. 


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Buckmastcr,129  fat,  and  full  of  glee, 

Might  rival  Cooke  in  "Jack  Falstaff;" 
"Pistol  "  and  "Bobadil  "  would  be 

Revived  once  more  in  Captain  Ilaff. 
To  classic  Meigs,  who  soon  —  thank  Heaven! 

In  congress  will  illume  the  age; 
The  highest  wages  should  he  given 

To  trim  the  lamps  and  light  the  stage. 
Van  Wyck130  will  play  the  "  Giant  Wife," 
And  "Death  in  Blue  Beard"  —  to  the  life; 
And  surly  German  131  do,  at  least, 
For  "Bear"  in  "Beauty  and  the  Beast." 

Maxwell132  and  Gardenicr,  you'll  fix, 

With  strong  indentures,  by  all  means; 
They're  used  to  shifting  politics, 

And  soon  would  learn  to  shift  the  scenes. 
Bacon  might  hustle  on  in  "Meddler," 
Gilbert133  play  new  tricks  in  "Diddler;" 

Good,  honest  Peter  II.  Wendover,1*' 
In  "  Vortex  "  read  his  own  speech  over  ; 
While  Pell  would  strike  the  critics  dumb, 
A  perfect  miniature  "  Tom  Thumb  ;" 
And  Mitchill,  as  in  all  the  past, 

Talk  science,  and  cut  corns  in  "Last."135 


Croaker  & 


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For  the  New  York  Evening  Post.130 


rpQ     *     *     *      *  * 
Air— Shannon  Side. 


The  world  is  bright  before  thee, 

Its  summer  flowers  are  thine, 
Its  calm  blue  sky  is  o'er  thee, 

Thy  bosom,  Pleasure's  shrine  ; 
And  thine  the  sunbeam  given 

To  Nature's  morning  hour, 
Pure,  warm,  as  when  from  heaven 

It  burst  on  Eden's  bower. 

There  is  a  song  of  sorrow, 

The  death-dirge  of  the  gay, 
That  tells,  ere  dawn  of  morrow, 

These  charms  may  melt  away : 
That  sun's  bright  beam  be  shaded, 

That  sky  be  blue  no  more, 
The  summer  flowers  be  faded, 

And  youth's  warm  promise  o'er. 


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Believe  it  not  —  though  lonely 

Thy  evening  home  may  he, 
Though  Beauty's  bark  can  only 

Float  on  a  summer  sea  ; 
Though  time  thy  hloom  is  stealing, 

There's  still  heyond  his  art, 
The  wild-flower  wreath  of  feeling, 

The  sunbeam  of  the  heart. 


Croaker  &  Co. 


THE  COUNCIL  OF  APPOINTMENT.137 


"Off  with  his  head! — so  much  for  Buckingham." 

Sliaks]ie:iiT. 

There's  magic  in  the  rohe  of  power, 

Ennobling  every  thing  beneath  it; 
Its  spell  is  like  the  Upas'  bower, 

Whose  air  will  puff'  up  all  who  breathe  it. 
Alike  it  charms  the  horse-hair  tress 

That  turkey's  three-tailed  Bashaws  wear, 
And  hallow  Clinton's  levee  dress, 

Cut  by  the  classic  shears  of  Baehr.138 

Before  its  witchery  —  of  late, 

Our  proudest  politicians  trembled  ; 
"When  the  five  Heads  that  rule  the  state 

Around  the  Council  board  assembled. 
There,  arbiter  of  fates  and  fortunes, 

Of  brains  it  well  supplied  the  loss,  , 
Gave  Bates139  and  Rosencrantz140  importance. 

And  made  a  gentleman  of  Boss  !141 


THE  CROAKERS. 


'Tis  vain  to  win  a  great  man's  name, 

A\rithout  some  proof  of  having'  been  one, 
And  Killings-  a  sure  path  to  fame, 

Vide  Jack  Ketch  and  Mr.  Clinton ! 
Our  Council  well  this  path  have  trod, 

Honor's  immortal  wreath  securing, 
They've  dipped  their  hatchets  in  the  blood, 

The  patriot  blood  of  Mat.  Van  Buren.142 

He  bears,  as  every  hero  ought, 

The  mandate  of  the  powers  that  rule 
(He's  higher  game  in  view,  'tis  thought. 

All  in  good  time;  the  man's  no  fool). 
With  him,  some  dozens  prostrate  fall, 

~No  friend  to  mourn,  nor  foe  to  flout  them, 
They  die  unsung,  unwept  by  all, 

For  no  one  cares  a  sons  about  them  ! 


Wortman  and  Scott  may  grace  the  bar  again, 

For  them,  a  blest  exchange  we  make; 
"We've  dignity  in  Ned  McGarraghan, 

We've  every  thing  in  Jerry  Drake. 
And  lo !  the  w  reath  of  wither'd  leaves 

That  lately  twined  Van  Iiuren's  brow, 
Oakley's  pure,  spotless  hand  receives ; 

lie's  earned  it  —  'tis  no  matter  how! 


THE  CROAKERS. 


Let  office  holders  cease  to  weep, 

And  put  once  more  their  gala  dress  on, 
The  Council's  closed,  and  they  may  sleep 

In  cpiiet,  'till  the  winter  session. 
Since  all,  or  in,  or  out  of  place, 

Wear  Knavery's  cloak  or  Folly's  feather, 
'Tis  ours,  their  ups  and  downs  to  trace, 

And  laugh  at  ins  and  outs  together. 

Croakkr  & 


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Fit i hay.  G  o'clock. 

Mr.  Coleman:  The  extravagant  price  of  Leghorn  hats  in  London, 
•as  mentioned  in  your  paper  this  evening,  suggests  the  annexed  lines. 

Yon  will  observe,  that  part  of  the  first  stanza  is  an  almost  literal 
quotation  from  Milton. 

Yours, 

Croaker. 


CURTAIN  CONVERSATIONS.143 


"  /  will  pny  no  debts  of  her  contracting  after  this  date." 

Daily  Newspapers. 

"Beside  the  nuptial  curtain  bright," 

The  hard  of  Kden  sings, 
"Young  Love  his  constant  lamp  will  light, 

And  wave  his  purple  wings." 
But  rain-drops,  from  the  clouds  of  care, 

May  hid  that  lamp  he  dim, 
And  the  hoy  Love  will  pout  and  swear 

'Tis  then  no  place  for  him. 


THE  CROAKERS. 


So  mus'd  tlie  lovely  Mrs.  Dash 

(We  blush  to  mention  names), 
When  for  her  surly  husband's  cash 

She  urg'd,  in  vain,  her  claims. 
"  I  want  a  little  money,  dear, 

"As  Vandervoort  and  Flandin,144 
"  Their  bill  (which  now  has  run  a  year) 

"  To-morrow  mean  to  hand  in." 

"  Zounds  !145  cried  the  husband,  half  asleep, 

"  You'll  drive  me  to  despair." 
The  lady  was  too  proud  to  weep, 

And  too  polite  to  swear : 
She  bit  her  lip  for  very  spite  ; 

He  felt  a  storm  was  brewing, 
And  dream'd  of  nothing  else  all  night 

But  brokers,  banks  and  ruin  ! 

He  thought  her  pretty  once  — but  dreams 

Have  sure  a  wond'rous  power; 
For,  to  his  eye,  the  lady  seems 

Quite  altered  since  that  hour. 
And  Love,  who,  on  their  bridal  eve, 

Had  promised  long  to  stay, 
Forgot  his  promise,  took  French  leave, 

And  bore  his  lamp  away. 

Croaker  & 


AX  ADDRESS  M" 

FOR  TUE  OPENING  OF  THE  NEW  THEATRE,  TO  BE  SPOKEN  BY 
MR.  OLLIFF.w 


Ladies  and  Gentlemen  : 

Enlighten'd  as  you  are,  you  all  must  know 
Our  play  house  was  burnt  down,  some  time  ago, 
Without  insurance  14*  —  'Twas  a  famous  blaze, 
Fine  fun  for  firemen,  but  dull  sport  for  plays : 
The  proudest  of  our  whole  dramatic  corps 
Such  warm  reception  never  met  before. 
It  was  a  woful  night  for  us  and  ours, 
"Worse  than  dry  weather  to  the  fields  and  flowers, 
The  evening  found  us  gay  as  summer's  lark, 

Happy  as  sturgeons  in  the  Tappan  sea  ; 
The  morning  —  like  the  dove  from  Noah's  ark, 

As  homeless,  houseless,  innocent  as  she. 
But  —  thanks  to  those  who  ever  have  been  known 
To  love  the  public  interest  —  when  their  own  ; 
Thanks  to  the  men  of  talent  and  of  trade, 
Who  joy  in  doing  well  —  when  they're  well  paid, 
Again  our  fircworn  mansion  is  rebuilt. 
Inside  and  outside,  neatly  carv'd  and  gilt. 
With  best  of  paint  and  canvas,  lath  and  plaster, 
The  Lord  bless  Heekman  and  John  Jacob  Astor." 


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As  an  old  coat,  from  Jennings' 150  patent  screw, 
Conies  out  clean-scon v'd  and  brighter  than  the  new, 
As  an  old  head  in  Saunders' 151  patent  wig, 
Looks  wiser  than  when  young,  and  twice  as  big, 
As  Mat.  Van  Buren,  in  the  Senate  Hall, 
Repairs  the  loss  we  met  in  Spencer's  fall. 
As  the  new  constitution  will  (we're  told) 
Be  worth  at  least  a  dozen  of  the  old  — 
So  is  our  new  house  better  than  its  brother, 
Its  roof  is  painted  yellower  than  the  other, 
It  is  insur'd  at  three  per  cent,  'gainst  fire, 
And  cost  three  times  as  much,  and  is  six  inches  higher. 

Tis  not  alone  the  house  —  The  prompter's  clothes 
Are  all  quite  new  —  so  are  the  fiddlers'  bows  ; 
The  supernumeraries  are  newly  shav'd, 
New  drill'd,  and  all  extremely  well  behav'd, 
(They'll  each  one  be  allow'd  (I  stop  to  mention) 
The  right  of  suffrage  by  the  new  convention) ; 
We've  some  new  thunder,  several  new  plays. 
And  a  new  splendid  carpet  of  green  baize. 
So  that  there's  nought  remains  to  bid  us  reach 
The  topmost  bough  of  favor  —  but  a  speech  — 
A  speech  —  the  prelude  to  each  public  meeting, 
Whether  for  morals,  charity  or  eating ; 
A  speech  —  the  modern  mode  of  winning  hearts, 
And  power,  and  fame,  in  politics  and  arts. 


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"What  made  the  good  Monroe  our  President  ? 
'Twas  that  through  all  this  blessed  land  he  went 
With  his  immortal  cock'd  hat  and  short  breeches, 
Dining  wherever  ask'd  —  and  making  speeches. 
What,  when  Missouri  stood  on  her  last  leers. 
Revived  her  hopes  ?  —  the  speech  of  Henry  Meigs.152 
What  proves  our  country  learned,  wise  and  happy  ? 
MitchilTs  Address  to  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 
What  has  convinced  the  world  that  we  have  men 
First  with  the  sword,  the  chisel,  brush  and  pen, 
Shaming  all  English  Authors,  men  or  madams  ? 
The  Fourth  of  July  speech  of  Mr.  Adams. 
Yes  — If  our  managers  grow  great  and  rich, 
And  players  prosper — let  them  thank  my  speech,153 
And  let  the  name  of  Ollitf  proudly  go 
AVith  Meigs  and  Adams,  Mitchill  and  Monroe. 


TO  WALTER  BOWNE,  ESQ., 151 


SENATOR  OF  THE    STATE  OF    NEW  YORK,   MEMBER    OF  THE  COUNCIL 
APPOINTMENT.1"  AC.  &C.  4C,  AT  ALBANY  IN  THE  SPRING  OF  1821. 


"  I  can  not  but  remember  that  such  things  were, 
And  were  most  precious  to  me." 

Shakspeare. 

We  do  not  blame  you,  Walter  Bowne, 

For  a  variety  of  reasons, 
You're  now  the  talk  of  half  the  town, 
A  man  of  talent  and  renown, 

And  will  he,  for  perhaps  two  seasons. 
That  face  of  yours  has  magic  in  it, 
Its  smile  transports  us  in  a  minute, 

To  wealth  and  pleasure's  sunny  bowers  : 
And  there  is  terror  in  its  frown, 
Which,  like  a  mower's  scythe,  cuts  down 

Our  city's  loveliest  flowers. 

We,  therefore,  do  not  blame  you,  sir, 
Whate'er  our  cause  of  grief  may  be, 

And  cause  enough  we  have  to  stir 
The  very  stones  to  mutiny. 


THE  CROAKERS. 


You've  driven  from  the  eash  and  cares 
Of  office,  heedless  of  onr  prayers, 
Men  who  have  been,  for  many  a  year, 
To  us,  and  to  our  purses  dear, 

And  will  he  to  our  heirs  for  ever. 
Onr  tears,  aided  by  snow  and  rain, 
Have  swelled  tbe  brook  in  Maiden  lane 

Into  a  mountain  river; 
And  when  von  visit  us  again, 
Leaning  at  Tammany  on  your  cane. 
Like  warrior  on  bis  battle-blade. 
You'll  mourn  tbe  havoc  you  have  made. 

The]  'e  is  a  silence  and  a  sadness 

Within  the  marble  mansion  now  : 
Some  have  wild  eves  that  look  like  madness, 

Some  talk  of  kicking  up  a  row. 
Judge  Miller  will  not  yet  believe 
That  yon  have  ventured  to  bereave 

The  city  and  its  hall  of  him  ; 
He  has  in  his  own  fine  way  stated, 
"  The  fact  must  be  substantiated," 

Before  he'll  move  a  single  limb. 
He  thinks  it  cursed  hard  to  yield 
The  laurel  won  in  every  field, 

Through  sixteen  years  of  party  war. 
And  to  be  seen  at  noon  no  more 
Enjoying,  at  his  office  door, 

The  luxury  of  a  tenth  segar. 


THE  CROAKERS. 


Judge  Warner  says  that,  now  he's  gone, 
We've  lost  the  true  Dogberry  breed  ; 

And  Christian  swears  that  you  have  done 
A  most  ?M-Christian  deed. 

How  could  you  have  the  heart  to  strike 

From  place  the  peerless  Pierre  Van  Wyek? 

And  the  two  colonels,  Haines1515  and  Pell, 

Squire  Fessenden  and  Sheriff  Bell?157 

Morrell,  a  justice,  and  a  wise  one, 

And  Ned  M'Laughlin,  the  exciseman  ? 

The  two  health  officers,  believers 

In  Clinton  and  contagious  fevers? 

The  keeper  of  the  city's  treasures, 

The  sealer  of  her  weights  and  measures  ? 

The  harbor  master,  her  best  bower 

Cable  in  party's  stormy  hour? 
Ten  auctioneers,  three  bank  directors, 
And  Mott  and  Duffy,  the  inspectors 

Of  whiskey  and  of  flour? 

It  was  but  yesterday  they  stood 
All  (ex  officio)  great  and  good  — 
But  by  the  tomahawk  struck  down 
Of  party,  and  of  Walter  Bowne, 
Where  are  they  now  ?  —  with  shapes  of  air, 
The  caravans  of  things  that  were, 
Journeying  to  their  nameless  home 
Like  Mecca's  pilgrims  from  her  tomb  — 
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With  the  lost  Pleiad  —  with  the  wars 

Of  Agamemnon's  ancestors  — 

With  their  own  years  of  joy  and  grief, 

Spring's  bud  and  autumn's  faded  leaf, 

With  birds  that  round  their  cradles  flew, 

With  winds  that  in  their  boyhoods  blew, 

With  last  night's  dream  and  last  night's  dew. 

Yes,  they  are  gone,  alas,  each  one  of  them, 

Departed,  every  mother's  son  of  them. 

Yet,  often,  at  the  close  of  day, 

When  thoughts  are  winged  and  wandering,  they 

Come  with  the  memory  of  the  past, 

Like  sunset  clouds  along  the  wind, 
Reflecting,  as  they're  flitting  fast, 
In  their  wild  hues  of  shade  and  light, 
All  that  was  beautiful  and  bright, 

In  golden  moments  left  behind. 


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THE  RECORDER.158 

A    I'  0  E  T  I C  A  L   EPISTL  E  . 


BY  THOMAS  CASTALY. 


"  On  they  move 
In  perfect  phalanx  to  the  Dorian  mood 
Of  Jlutes  and  soft  Recorders." 

Milton. 

"Live  in  Settles  numbers  one  day  more!  " 

Pope. 

My  dear  Dick  Biker,189  you  and  I 

Have  floated  down  life's  stream  together, 
And  kept  unharmed  our  friendship's  tie, 
Through  every  change  of  fortune's  sky, 

Her  pleasant  and  her  rainy  weather. 
Full  sixty  times  since  first  we  met, 
Our  birth-day  suns  have  risen  and  set, 
And  time  has  worn  the  baldness  now 
Of  Julius  Csesar  on  your  brow  ; 


Till:  CHOAKKKS. 


Your  brow  —  like  his,  a  Hold  of  thought, 
With  broad  (loop  furrows,  spirit-wrought. 
Whose  laurel  harvests  long  have  shone 
As  green  and  glorious  as  his  own  : 
And  proudly  would  the  Cv.sah  claim 
Companionship  with  Rikku's  name, 
His  poor  in  forehead  and  in  tamo. 
Both  eloquent  and  learned  and  brave, 

Horn  to  command  and  skilled  to  rule, 
One  made  the  citizen  a  slave. 

The  other  makes  him  more  —  a  tool. 
The  C.v.sAH  an  imperial  crown. 

His  slaves'  mad  gift,  refused  to  wear; 
The  Rikkk  put  his  fool's  eap  on. 

And  found  it  fitted  to  a  hair. 
The  C.KS.ut,  though  by  birth  and  breeding. 
Travel,  the  ladies,  and  light  reading. 
A  gentleman  in  mien  and  mind. 

And  fond  of  Romans  and  their  mothers. 
Was  heartless  as  the  Arab's  wind. 
And  slew  some  millions  of  mankind, 

Including  enemies  and  others. 
The  K ik Kit,  like  Bob  Ai  res,  stood 
Edge-ways  upon  a  Held  of  blood. 

The  where  and  wherefore  Swartwout  know 
Pulled  trigger,  as  a  brave  man  should. 

And  shot,  (iod  bless  them  —  his  own  toes. 


THE  CROAKERS. 


The  CiESAii  passed  the  Rubicon 
With  helm  and  shield  and  breast  plate  on, 
Dashing  his  war-horse  through  the  waters; 
The  Hiker  would  have  built  a  barge 
Or  steam  boat,  at  the  city's  charge, 
And  passed  it  with  his  wife  and  daughters. 
But  let  that  pass.    As  I  have  said, 
There's  nought,  save  laurels,  on  your  head, 
And  time  has  changed  my  clustering  hair, 
And  showered  the  snow  flakes  thickly  there, 
And  though  our  lives  have  ever  been, 
As  different  as  their  different  scene  ; 
Mine  more  renowned  for  rhymes  than  riches, 
Your's  less  for  scholarship  than  speeches ; 
Mine  passed  in  low-roofed  leafy  bower, 
Your's  in  high  halls  of  pomp  and  power, 
Yet  are  we,  be  the  moral  told, 
Alike  in  one  thing  —  growing  old  ; 
Ripened  like  summer's  cradled  sheaf, 
Faded  like  Autumn's  falling  leaf — 
And  nearing,  sail  and  signal  spread. 
The  quiet  anchorage  of  the  dead ; 
For  such  is  human  life,  wherever 
The  voyage  of  its  bark  may  be, 
On  home's  green-banked  and  gentle  river. 
Or  the  world's  shoreless,  sleepless  sea. 

Yes,  you  have  floated  down  the  tide 
Of  time,  a  Swan  in  grace  and  pride 


THE  CROAKERS. 


And  majesty  and  beauty,  till 
The  law,  the  Ariel  of  your  will, 

Power's  best  beloved,  the  law  of  libel 
(A  bright  link  in  the  feudal  chain) 
Expounded,  settled,  and  made  plain, 

By  your  own  charge,  the  Jurors'  Bible, 
Has  clipped  the  venomed  tongue  of  Slander, 
That  dared  to  call  you  "  Party's  Gander, 
"  The  leader  of  the  geese  who  make 

"  Our  city's  parks  and  ponds  their  home, 
"And  keep  her  liberties  awake 

"By  cackling,  as  their  sires  saved  Rome. 
"  Gander  of  Party's  pond,  wherein 
"Lizard,  and  toad,  and  terrapin, 
"  Your  ale-house  patriots,  are  seen, 

"La  Faction's  feverish  sunshine  basking." 
And  now,  to  rend  this  veil  of  lies, 
Word-woven  by  your  enemies, 
And  keep  your  sainted  memory  free, 
From  tarnish  with  posterity, 

I  take  the  liberty  of  asking 
Permission,  sir,  to  write  3'our  life, 
With  all  its  scenes  of  calm  and  strife, 

And  all  its  turnings  and  its  windings, 
A  poem  in  a  quarto  volume, 
Verse  like  the  subject,  blank  and  solemn, 

"With  elegant  appropriate  bindings, 
Of  rat  and  mole  skin  the  one  half, 
The  other  a  part  fox,  part  calf. 


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THE  CROAKERS. 


Your  portrait  graven  line  for  line, 
From  that  immortal  bust  in  plaster, 
The  master  piece  of  Art's  great  Master, 

Mr.  Praxiteles  Browere, 
Whose  trowel  is  a  thing  divine, 
Shall  smile  and  how,  and  promise  there, 
And  twenty-nine  fine  forms  and  faces, 

The  Corporation  and  the  Mayor, 
Linked  hand  in  hand,  like  Loves  and  Graces, 

Shall  hover  o'er  it  grouped  in  air 
With  wild  pictorial  dance  and  song; 
The  song,  of  happy  bees  in  bowers, 
The  dance  of  Guido's  graceful  hours, 
All  scattering  Flushing's  garden  flowers 
Round  the  dear  head  they've  loved  so  long. 

I  know  that  you  are  modest,  know 

That  when  you  hear  your  merit's  praise, 
Your  cheek's  epiick  blushes  come  and  go, 
Lily  and  rose-leaf,  sun  and  snow, 

Like  maidens'  on  their  bridal  days. 
I  know  that  you  would  fain  decline 
To  aid  me  and  the  sacred  Wme, 
In  giving  to  the  asking  Earth, 
The  story  of  your  wit  and  worth  ; 
For  if  there  be  a  fault  to  cloud 

The  brightness  of  your  clear  good  sense, 
It  is,  and  be  the  fact  allowed, 

Your  only  failing  —  Diffidence  ! 


THE  CROAKERS. 


An  amiable  weakness  —  given 

To  justify  the  sad  reflection, 
That  in  this  vale  of  tears  not  even 

A  Riker  is  Complete  perfection. 
A  most  romantic  detestation 
Of  power  and  place,  of  pay  and  ration  ; 
A  strange  unwillingness  to  carry 

The  weight  of  honor  on  your  shoulders, 
For  which  you  have  been  named,  the  very 

Sensitive-plant  of  office  holders. 
A  shrinking  bashfulness,  whose  grace 
Gives  beauty  to  your  manly  face. 
Thus  shades  the  green  and  growing  vine, 
The  rough  bark  of  the  mountain  pine, 
Thus  round  her  Freedom's  waking  steel 

Harmodius  wreathed  his  country's  myrtle 
And  thus  the  golden  lemon's  peel 

Gives  fragrance  to  a  bowl  of  turtle. 

True  "  many  a  flower,"  the  poet  sings, 

"  Is  born  to  blush  unseen," 
But  you,  although  you  blush,  are  not 

The  flower  the  poets  mean. 
In  vain  you  wooed  a  lowlier  lot. 

In  vain  you  dipt  your  eagle-wings  ; 
Talents  like  yours  are  not  forgot 

And  buried  with  Earth's  common  things. 
No !  my  dear  Biker,  [  would  give 
My  laurels,  living  and  to  live. 


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Or  as  much  cash  as  you  could  raise  ou 
Their  value,  by  hypothecation, 
To  be,  for  one  enchanted  hour, 
In  beauty,  majesty,  and  power, 
What  you  for  forty  years  have  been, 
The  Oberon  of  life's  fairy  scene ! 

An  anxious  city  sought  and  found  you 

In  a  blest  day  of  joy  and  pride, 
Sceptered  your  jewelled  hand,  and  crowned  you 

Her  chief,  her  guardian,  and  her  guide. 
Honors  which  weaker  minds  had  wrought 

In  vain  for  years,  and  knelt  and  prayed  for, 
Are  all  your  own,  unpriced,  unbought, 

Or  (which  is  the  same  thing)  unpaid  for. 
Painfully  great !  against  your  will 

Her  hundred  offices  to  hold, 
Each  chair  with  dignity  to  fill, 

And  your  own  pockets,  with  her  gold. 
A  sort  of  double  duty,  making 
Your  task  a  serious  undertaking. 

With  what  delight,  the  eyes  of  all 
Gaze  on  you,  seated  in  your  Hall,101 

Like  Saneho  in  his  island,  reigning, 
Lord  leader  of  its  motley  hosts 
Of  lawyers  and  their  bills  of  costs, 

And  all  things  thereto  appertaining, 
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Such  as  crimes,  constables  and  juries, 

Male  pilferers  and  female  furies, 

The  police  and  the  J*ollissons, 

Illegal  right  and  legal  wrong. 

Bribes,  perjuries,  law-craft  and  cunning, 

Judicial  drollery  and  punning; 

And  all  the  el  ceteras  that  grace 

That  genteel,  gentlemanly  place  ! 

Or  in  the  Council  Chamber  standing, 

With  eloquence  of  eye  and  brow, 
Your  voice  the  music  of  commanding, 

And  fascination  in  your  bow, 
Arranging  for  the  civic  shows 

Your  "men  in  buckram,"  as  per  list, 
Your  John  Does  and  your  Richard  Roes, 

Those  Dummys  of  your  games  of  whist. 
The  Council  Chamber — where  authority 
Consists  in  two  words  —  a  majority. 
For  whose  contractors'  jobs  we  pay 

Our  last  dear  sixpences  for  taxes, 
As  freely  as  in  Sylla's  day, 

Home  bled  beneath  his  lictors'  axes. 
"Where —  on  each  magisterial  nose 

In  colors  of  the  rainbow  linger, 
Like  sunset  hues  on  Alpine  snows, 

The  printmarks  of  your  thumb  and  finger. 
Where  he,  the  wisest  of  wild  fow  l. 
Bird  of  .love's  blue-eyed  maid  —  the  owl. 


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That  feathered  alderman,  is  heard 
lightly,  by  poet's  ear  alone, 
To  others'  eyes  and  ears  unknown, 

Cheering  your  every  look  and  word. 
And  making,  room  and  gallery  through. 

The  loud,  applauding  echoes  peal, 
Of  his  "  ou  peut  on  etre  mieux 
Qu'au  sein  de  sa  famille." 162 
Oh !  for  a  Herald's  skill  to  rank 

Your  titles  in  their  due  degrees  ! 
At  Sing  Sing  —  at  the  Tradesmen's  Bank, 

In  courts,  committees,  caucuses : 
At  Albany,  where  those  who  know 

The  last  year's  secrets  of  the  Great, 
Call  you  the  golden  handle  to 

The  earthen  Pitcher  of  the  State. 
(Poor  Pitcher  !163  that  Van  Buren  ceases 

To  want  its  service  gives  me  pain, 
'Twill  break  into  as  many  pieces 

As  Kitty's  of  Coleraine.) 
At  Bellevue,101  on  her  banquet  night, 

"Where  Burgundy  and  business  meet, 
On  others,  at  the  heart's  delight, 

The  Pewter  Mug165  in  Frankfort  street, 
From  Harlem  bridge  to  "Whitehall  dock, 

From  Bloomiugdale  to  Blackwell's  isles, 
Forming,  including  road  and  rock, 

A  city  of  some  twelve  square  miles, 


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O'er  street  and  alley,  square  and  block, 
Towers,  temples,  telegraphs  and  tiles, 
O'er  wharves  whose  stone  and  timbers  mock 
The  ocean's  and  its  navies'  shock, 
O'er  all  the  fleets  that  float  before  her, 
O'er  all  their  banners  waving  o'er  her, 
Her  sky  and  waters,  earth  and  air  — 
You  are  Lord,  for  who  is  her  Lord  Mayor  ? 
AVhere  is  he?  Echo  answers,  where? 
And  voices,  like  the  sound  of  seas 
Breathe  in  sad  chorus,  on  the  breeze, 
The  Highland  mourner's  melody  — 
Oh  Hone  1(56  a  rie  !  O  Hone  a  rie ! 
The  hymn  o'er  happy  days  departed, 
The  hope  that  such  again  may  be, 
When  power  was  large  and  liberal-hearted, 
And  wealth  was  hospitality. 

One  more  request,  and  I  am  lost 

If  you  its  earnest  prayer  deny, 
It  is  that  you  preserve  the  most 

Inviolable  secrecy 
As  to  my  plan.    Our  fourteen  wards 
Contain  some  thirty-seven  bards, 
Who,  if  my  glorious  theme  were  known, 
Would  make  it,  thought  and  word,  their  own, 
My  hopes  and  happiness  destroy, 
And  trample  with  a  rival's  joy 


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TILE  CROAKERS. 


Upon  the  grave  of  my  renown. 
My  younger  brothers  in  the  art, 
Whose  study  is  the  human  heart  — 
Minstrels,  before  whose  spells  have  bowed 
The  learned,  the  lovely,  and  the  proud  — 

Ere  their  life's  morning  hours  are  gone 
Free  minds  be  theirs,  the  Muse's  boon, 
And  may  their  suns  blaze  bright  at  noon, 

And  set  without  a  cloud. 

Hillhouse,  whose  music  like  his  themes 

Lifts  earth  to  Heaven — •whose  poet-dreams 

Are  pure  and  holy  as  the  hymn 

Echoed  from  harps  of  seraphim, 

By  bards  that  drank  at  Zion's  fountains 

When  glory,  peace,  and  hope  were  hers, 
And  beautiful  upon  her  mountains 

The  feet  of  angel  messengers. 
Bryant,  whose  songs  are  thoughts  that  bless 

The  heart,  its  teachers,  and  its  jo}*, 
As  mothers  blend  with  their  caress 
Lessons  of  truth  and  gentleness 

And  virtue  for  the  listening  boy. 
Spring's  lovelier  flowers  for  many  a  day 
Have  blossomed  on  his  wandering  way  — 
Being  of  beauty  and  decay, 

They  slumber  in  their  autumn  tomb ; 
But  those  who  graced  his  own  Green  River, 

And  wreathed  the  lattice  of  his  home, 


THE  CROAKERS. 


Charmed  by  his  sons;  from  mortal  doom, 
Bloom  on,  and  will  bloom  on  forever. 

And  Halleck  —  who  has  made  thy  roof, 

St  Tammany !  oblivion-proof — 

Thy  beer  illustrious,  and  thee 

A  belted  knight  of  chivalry; 

And  changed  thy  dome  of  painted  bricks, 

And  porter  casks,  and  politics, 
Into  a  green  Arcadian  vale, 

With  Stephen  Allen167  for  its  lark, 

Ben  Bailey's  voice  its  watch  dog's  bark 
And  John  Targee,168  its  nightingale. 

These,  and  the  other  thirty-four, 
Will  live  a  thousand  3-ears  or  more  — 
If  the  world  lasts  so  long.    For  me, 
I  rhyme  not  for  posterity, 
Though  pleasant  to  my  heirs  might  be 

The  incense  of  its  praise, 
When  I,  their  ancestor,  have  gone 
And  paid  the  debt,  the  only  one 

A  poet  ever  pays. 
But  many  are  my  years,  and  few 
Are  left  me  ere  night's  holy  dew. 
And  sorrow's  holier  tears,  will  keep 
The  grass  green  where  in  death  I  sleep. 
And  when  that  grass  is  green  above  me, 
And  those  who  bless  me  now  and  love  me 

Are  sleeping  by  my  side, 


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Will  it  avail  me  aught  that  men 
Tell  to  the  world  with  lip  and  pen 

That  once  I  lived  and  died  ? 
'No  —  if  a  garland  for  my  brow 
Is  growing,  let  me  have  it  now, 

"While  I'm  alive  to  wear  it; 
And  if,  in  whispering  my  name, 
There's  music  in  the  voice  of  fame. 

Like  Garcia's,  let  me  hear  it ! 

The  Christmas  holidays  are  nigh, 
Therefore,  'till  New- Year's  Eve,  good  bye, 

Then  revenons  a  nos  moutons, 
Yourself  and  Aldermen  —  meanwhile, 
Look  o'er  this  letter  with  a  smile  ; 
And  keep  the  secret  of  its  song 
As  faithfully,  but  not  as  long, 
As  you  have  guarded  from  the  eyes 
Of  editorial  Paul  Prys, 

And  other  meddling,  murmuring  claimants, 
Those  Eleusinian  mysteries. 

The  City's  cash  receipts  and  payments. 

Yours  ever, 

T.  C. 


For  the  Evening  Post.189 

EPISTLE  TO  ROBERT  HOGBTN,  ESQ. 


ONE  OF  THK  COMMITTER  OF  WORKING   MEN,  AC,   AT  THE  WESTCHESTER 
HOTEL,  BOWERY. 


Mr.  Ho<; bin,  I  work  as  a  weaver  of  rhyme, 

And  therefore  presume,  with  a  working  man's  grace, 

To  address  you,  as  one  I  have  liked  for  some  time, 
Though  I  know  not  (no  douht  its  a  fine  one)  your  face. 

There  is  much  in  a  name,  and  I'll  lay  you  a  wager 
(Two  small  jugs  from  Reynolds170),  that  Nature  de- 
signed, 

When  she  found  you,  that  you  should  hecome  the  drum 
major, 

In  that  sweet  piece  of  music  the  Grand  March  of  Mind. 

A  HOGBIM  !  a  HoGBIN  !  how  cheering  the  shout 
Of  all  that  keep  step  to  that  beautiful  air 

Which  leads,  like  the  Treadmill,  about  and  about, 
And  leaves  us  exactly,  at  last,  where  we  were. 


FRANCIS  BACON,  VI  SCOT  X  T  ST  AJLBAN. 

OB  UiW. 

KHOM  TIIK  OKWINAI.  <>K  VAX  SOMF.R.IK  THK  COI.I.KCTION  or 
Till-:  KiUHT  BUS"VTBIJ  BAKJ.  OF  \K.Kll..\M 


THE  CROAKERS. 


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Yes,  there's  much  in  a  name,  and  a  Hogbin  so  fit  is 

For  that  great  moral,  purpose  whose  impulse  divine, 
Bids  men  leave  their  own  workshops  to  work  in  com- 
mittees, 

And  their  own  wedded  wives  to  protect  yours  and  mine. 


That  we  working*  men  prophets  are  sadly  mistaken, 
If  yours  is  not,  Hogbin,  a  durable  fame, 

Immortal  as  England's  philosopher  Bacon, 

Whom  your  ancestors  housed,  if  we  judge  by  his  name. 


When  the  moment  arrives  that  we've  won  the  good  fight, 
And  broken  the  chains  of  laws,  churches  and  mar- 
riages, 

When  no  infants  are  born  under  six  feet  in  height, 
And  our  chimney  sweeps  mount  up  a  flue  in  their 
carriages. 

That  glorious  time,  when  our  daughters  and  sons 
Enjoy  a  Blue  Monday  each  day  of  the  w*eek, 

And  a  clean  shirt  is  classed  with  the  mastodon's  bones, 
Or  a  mummy  from  Thebes,  an  undoubted  anticpie. 


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Then,  then,  my  dear  IIogbin,  your  statue  in  straw, 
By  some  modern  Pygmalion  delightfully  wrought, 

Shall  be  placed  in  the  Park,  and  our  youths'  only  law 
Shall  be  to  be  Hogbins  in  feeling  and  thought ! 

Yours, 


A  "Working  M  ax. 


THE  DINNER  PARTY. 


Johnny  R  171  gave  a  dinner  last  night, 

The  best  I  have  tasted  this  season, 
The  wine  and  the  wit  sparkled  bright, 

'Twas  a  frolic  of  soul  and  of  reason. 
For  the  guests,  there  were  Cooper172  and  Kean 

Bishop  Hobart,m  and  Alderman  Brasher, 
And  Buchanan,175  that  foe  to  the  rpieen, 

And  Sherred,  the  painter  and  glazier. 

The  beef  had  been  warm,  it  is  true, 

But  when  we  sat  down,  it  was  colder ; 
The  wine  when  we  entered  was  new, 

When  we  drank  it,  'twas  six  hours  older. 
Mr.  Kean,  by  the  way  he's  no  dunce, 

His  plate  was  so  often  repeating, 
I  thought  he'd  a  genius  at  once, 

Not  only  for  acting,  but  eating. 


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THE  CROAKERS. 


Mr,  Cooper,  a  sensible  man, 

Talked  much  of  his  scheme  of  rebuilding 
The  theatre  on  a  new  plan, 

With  fantastical  carving  and  gilding. 
Says  he,  "  I've  a  thought  of  my  own ; 

Of  the  people,  so  stupid  the  taste  is, 
I  could  till  the  new  play  house  in  June 

If  I  only  could  furnish  new  faces." 

In  addition  to  those  I  have  named, 

Harry  Crnger17"  was  there  in  his  glory, 
That  ci-devant  jeune  homme  so  famed 

In  Paris  —  but  that's  an  old  story. 
And  General  Lewis,177  by  Jove  ! 

With  two  vests,  and  a  new  fashioned  eye-glass, 
He  looked  like  the  young  god  of  love 

At  distance,  beheld  through  a  spy -glass; 

I  have  read  my  first  stanza  again 

And  find  that  for  once  I  have  erred, 
For  Robert  and  Mat  were  the  men, 

Instead  of  Buchanan  and  Sherred. 
Two  Frenchmen,  the  best  I  have  met, 

At  home,  in  bad  English  and  flummery, 
Were  there  — just  to  make  up  the  set, 

Together  with  Master  Montgomery.178 


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Jack  Nicholson 179  wanted  to  come 

With  his  pea-jacket  on,  but  the  ladies 
Compelled  him  to  leave  it  at  home ; 

So  he  wore,  as  becoming  his  trade  is, 
Two  epanlets  —  one  on  each  arm, 

And  a  sword,  once  of  laurels  the  winner, 
Ever  ready  in  case  of  alarm, 

At  carving  a  foe  or  a  dinner. 

Bishop  Hobart  said  grace  with  an  air, 

'T  would  have  done  your  heart  good  to  have  seen  him , 
And  Lewis,  so  sweetly  did  swear, 

You'd  have  thought  that  the  devil  was  in  him. 
And  Alderman  Brasher 180  began 

A  song,  but  he  could  not  go  through  it  : 
When  Johnny  R  asks  me  again 

To  a  fete,  by  the  Lord,  I'll  go  to  it. 


THE  TEA  PARTY 


The  tea-urn  is  singing-,  the  tea  cups  are  gay, 

The  fire  sparkles  bright  in  the  room  of  D.  K.1M 
For  the  first  time  these  six  mouths,  a  broom  has  been 
there, 

And  tlie  housemaid  has  brushed  every  table  and  chair; 
Drugs,  minerals,  books,  are  all  hidden  from  view, 

And  the  five  shabby  pictures  arc  varnished  anew; 
There's  a  feast  going  on,  there's  the  devil  to  pay 

In  the  furnished  apartments  of  Doctor  J).  K. 

What  magic  has  raised  all  this  bustle  and  noise, 

Disturbing  the  bachelor's  still  epiiet  joys; 
A  pair  of  young  witches  have  doomed  them  to  death, 

They  are  distant  relations  to  those  in  Macbeth. 
Not  as  ugly  'tis  true,  but  as  mischievious  quite, 

And  like  them  in  teasing  and  taking  delight  : 
This  morning  they  sent  him  a  billet  to  say. 

To  night  we  take  tea  with  you,  Doctor  I).  K. 


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There  is  Mrs.  I.  D.  in  her  high  glee  and  glory, 

And  E.  McC.  with  her  song  and  her  story ; 
There's  a  smile  on  each  lip,  and  a  leer  on  each  brow, 

And  they  both  are  determined  to  kick  up  a  row ; 
They're  mistaken  for  once,  as  they'll  presently  see, 

ForD.  K.'s  drinking  whiskey  with  Langstaff  and  me  ; 
They'll  find  the  cage  there,  but  the  bird  is  away, 

Catch  a  weazel  asleep,  and  catch  Doctor  D.  K. 

F.  G.  H.  1820. 


THE  MODERN  HYDRA. 


There  is  a  beast  sublime  and  savage, 

The  Hydra  by  denomination; 
Well  doth  he  know  his  foes  to  ravage, 

And  barks  and  bites  to  admiration. 
Fox  —  wolf — cat  —  dog  —  of  each,  at  least,  he 

Has  a  full  share,  and  never  scants  'em  ; 
But  what  is  strangest  in  this  beast,  he 

Can  make  new  beads  whene'er  he  wants  'em. 

For  when  our  Tammany  Alcides 

Had  tomahawk'd  his  head  political, 
Straight  from  the  bleeding  trunk,  out  slid  his 

Well  fill'd  noddle  scientifical. 
Another  comes — another!  sec  — 

They  rise  in  infinite  variety ; 
One  cries  aloud  "  Free  school  trustee  !" 

The  next  exclaims,  "Humane  society  !  " 


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Behold  the  fourth  —  be-whiskered  —  l>ig — 

A  warlike  eock'd  hat  frowns  upon  it ; 
The  fifth  uprears  a  doctor's  wig  I 

The  sixth  displays  the  judgment  bonnet. 
Herculean  iNbah  !  your  strength  you  waste, 
Reserve  your  furious  cuts  and  slashes, 
Till  Satan  stands  beside  the  beast 
With  red-hot  steel  to  sear  the  gashes. 


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TTIK  MEETING  OF  THE  GROCERS. 


The  knights  of  the  firkin  are  gathered  around. 

The  rag-idol's  rights  to  assert: 
Each  gatherer  pricks  up  his  ears  at  the  sound. 
Town  rags  are  advancing  a  penny  a  pound, 

While  country  rags  sink  in  the  dirt. 

Aghast  stand  the  brokers  —  the  earn  ing  trade 

Is  lost  if  the  butter-hoys  win  ; 
The  fanners  are  quaking  —  the  west  is  dismayed. 
Omnipotent  Fundable  trembles,  afraid, 

And  Wall  street  is  all  in  a  din. 

'T  wasn't  so  when  the  banks,  in  a  body,  prepared 

To  cut  their  own  corporate  throats  ; 
And  biting  their  thumbs  at  the  farmers,  declared 
To  the  thunderstruck  dealers  in  butter  and  lard. 
They  would  handle  no  more  of  their  notes. 


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Oh!  Fundable,  Fundable!  look  to  thine  own, 

Now,  now,  let  thy  management  shine; 
I  fear  the  young  Franklin  will  worry  thee  down, 
And,  if  all  the  bad  paper  be  kicked  out  of  town, 
Dear  Fundable  !  where  will  be  thine? 


THE  KLXG  OF  THE  DOCTORS.182 


How  stately  your  palace  uplifts  its  proud  head. 
Where  Broadway  and  Barclay  street  meet ; 
Abhorring  its  old  fashioned  tunic  of  red, 
It  shines  in  the  lustre  of  chroinate  of  lead. 
And  its  doors  open  —  into  the  street  ! 

No  longer  it  rings  to  the  merry  sleigh  bells,183 

The  steed's  gallant  neighings  are  o'er; 
Instead  of  the  pitchfork,  we  meet  with  scalpels, 
And  the  throne  of  his  medical  majesty  dwells 
"Where  the  horse-trough  resided  before. 

Oh  !  David  !  how  dreadful  and  dire  was  the  note, 

When  Rebellion  beleaguered  the  place  ; 
When  the  bull-dog  of  discord  unbolted  liis  throat, 
And  the  hot  Digitalcs  ■*  unbuttoned  his  coat 
And  doubled  his  fist  in  your  face. 


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Then  syncope  seized  thee  —  all  wild  with  affright 

The  Lord  Chamberlain  cried  "God  defend  ye!" 
Mac185  swung  his  shillela  in  hopes  of  a  fight, 
While  the  brave  Surgeon-General  exclaimed  in  delight, 
"  Pugnatum  est  arte  medendi." 

But  your  wars  are  all  ended,  you're  now  at  your  ease, 

The  Regents  are  bound  for  your  debts; 
You  may  fleece  your  poor  students  as  much  as  you  please, 
Tax  boldly,  matriculate,  double  your  fees, 
You  can  pay  off  all  scores  in  brevets. 

So  a  health  to  your  highness,  and  long  may  you  reign, 

Over  subjects  obedient  and  true; 
If  the  snaffle  wont  hold  them,  apply  the  curb  rein, 
And  if  ever  they  prance,  or  go  backward  again, 

May  you  horsewhip  them  all  black  and  blue. 


MR.  CLINTON'S  SPEECH. 

JANUARY,  1825. 


To  Tallmadge  186  of  the  upper  house, 
And  Crolius1*7  of  the  lower, 

After,  "mm  nobis  Domine," 
Thus  saith  the  Governor. 

It  seems  by  general  admission, 

That,  as  a  nation,  Ave  are  thriving ; 
Settled  in  excellent  condition, 

Bargaining,  building,  and  bee-hiving. 
That  each  one  fearlessly  reclines 
Beneath  his  "  fig  tree  and  his  vines," 

(The  dream  of  philosophic  man), 
And  all  is  quiet  as  on  Sunday 
From  Orleans  to  the  Bay  of  Fundy, 

From  Beersheba  to  Dan. 


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I've  climbed  my  country's  loftiest  tree, 

And  reached  its  highest  bough — save  one, 
"Why  not  the  highest  ?  —  blame  not  me, 

"  What  men  dare  "  do,  I've  done. 
And  though  thy  city,  Washington, 

Still  mocks  my  eagle  wing  and  eye, 
Yet  is  there  joy  upon  a  throne 

Even  here  at  Albany. 
For  though  but  second  in  command, 

Far  floats  my  banner  in  the  breeze, 
A  Captain-General's  on  the  land, 

An  Admiral's  on  the  seas.18s 
And,  if  Ambition  can  ask  more, 
My  very  title  —  Governor, 

A  princely  pride  creates, 
Because  it  gives  me  kindred  claims 
To  greatness  with  those  glorious  names, 

A  Sancho,  and  a  Yates. 

As  party  spirit  has  departed 

This  life  to  breathe  and  blast  no  more, 
The  patriot  and  the  honest  hearted 

Shall  form  my  diplomatic  corps. 
The  wise,  the  talented,  the  good, 

Selected  from  my  band  of  yore, 
My  own  devoted  band,  who've  stood 
Beside  me,  stemming  faction's  flood. 

Like  rocks  on  Ocean's  shore. 


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THE  CROAKERS. 


Men,  who,  if  now  the  field  were  lost, 

Again  would  buckle  sword  and  mail  on, 
Followed  by  them,  themselves  a  host, 
Haines,  Ilurtell,  Herring,  Pell  and  Post,189 
Judge  Miller,  Mumford,  and  Van  Wyck, 
'Tis  said  I  look  extremely  like 
A  Highland  chieftain  with  his  tail  on. 

A  clear  and  comprehensive  view 

Of  every  thing  in  art  or  nature, 
In  this  my  opening  speech  is  due 

To  an  enlightened  legislature. 
I  therefore  have  arranged  with  care, 

In  orderly  classification, 
The  following  subjects,  which  should  share 

Your  most  mature  deliberation. 

Physicians,  senators,  and  makers 

( )f  patent  medicines  and  machines, 
The  train-bands  and  the  Shaking  Quakers, 

Forts,  colleges  and  quarantines, 
Debts,  cadets,  coal  mines  and  canals, 

Salt  —  the  comptroller's  next  report. 
Reform  within  our  prison  walls, 

The  customs  and  the  supreme  court, 
Delinquents,  juvenile  and  gray, 

Schools,  steam  boats,  justices  of  peace, 
Republics  of  the  present  day, 

And  those  of  Italy  and  Greece ; 


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Militia  officers,  and  they 

Who  serve  in  the  police  — 
Mad  men  and  laws  —  a  great  variety, 
The  horticultural  society, 
The  rate  of  interest  and  of  tolls, 
The  number  of  tax-worthy  souls, 

Roads  —  and  a  mail  three  times  a  week 
From  where  the  gentle  Erie  rolls 

To  Conewango  creek. 

These  are  a  few  affairs  of  state 

On  which  I  ask  your  reasoning  powers, 
High  themes  for  study  and  debate 

For  closet  and  for  caucus  hours. 

This  is  my  longest  speech,  but  those 
"Who  feel,  that,  like  a  cable's  strength, 
Its  power  increases  with  its  length, 
Will  weep  to  hear  its  close. 
Weep  not  —  my  next  shall  be  as  long, 
And  that,  like  this,  —  embalmed  in  song, 
Will  be,  when  two  brief  years  are  told, 

Mine  owu  no  longer,  but  the  Nation's, 
With  all  my  speeches,  new  and  old, 
And  what  is  more  —  the  place  I  hold, 
Together  with  its  pay  and  rations. 

1G 


THE  NIGHTMARE. 


"  Sure  he  was  sent  from  heaven  express  to  be  the  pillar  of  (he  slate. 
So  terrible  his  name,  '•  C/intonian  "  nurses  frighten  children  with  it. 

Tom  Thuml 

Dreaming  last  night  —  of  Pierre  Van  Wyck, 

I  felt  the  nightmare  creeping  o'er  me; 
In  vain  I  strove  to  speak  or  strike, 

The  horrid  form  was  still  before  me : 
Till,  panting  —  struggling  to  be  fx-ee, 

I  raised  my  weak,  but  desperate  head. 
And  faintly  muttered  "John  Targee!" 

When  —  with  a  howl  —  the  goblin  tied. 

I  waked,  and  cried  in  glad  surprise, 
The  man  is  found,  ordained  by  fate 

To  break  our  bonds,  and  exorcise 
The  nightmare  of  the  sleeping  state. 

He'll  chase  the  demons,  great  and  small. 
They'll  sink  his  withering  gaze  before; 

Then  rouse  !  ye  sachems  at  the  Hall, 

And  nominate  him  (iowrnor. 


TIIE  CROAKERS. 


Up  with  the  name  on  Freedom's  cause, 

Inscribe  it,  Bucktails,  on  your  banner; 
Fame's  pewter  trump  shall  sound  applause, 

And  blasts  from  party's  furnace  fan  her. 
Pledge  high  his  health  in  mugs  of  beer, 

And  roaring  like  the  boisterous  sea, 
Thunder  in  Clinton's  frighted  ear, 

The  conquering  name  of  John  Targee ! 


TO  THE 

DIRECTORS  OF  THE  ACADEMY  OF  ARTS. 


WRITTEN   ON   VISITING   T1IK  FIRST   EXHIBITION   IN  1SI6. 


Illustrious  autocrats  of  taste  ! 
Inspectors  of  the  wonders  traced 

By  pencil,  brush  or  chisel ; 
Accept  a  nameless  poet's  lay 
Who  longs  to  twine  a  twig  of  bay 

Around  his  penny  whistle. 

Ye  learned  and  enlightened  few 
Who  keep  the  portal  of  virtu, 

I  pray  you  now  unlock  it ; 
And  »rant  a  peep  for  all  my  pains, 
Within  your  oil-bedaubed  domains, 
Where  now  the  poor  in  brains 

Succeed  the  poor  in  pocket. 


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TEE  CROAKERS. 


Immortal  be  the  rich  repast, 

At  which  the  sage  decree  was  past, 

Of  pauper  health  so  tender  ; 
Which  sent  the  beggars  to  Bellevue, 
And  left  the  classic  fane  to  you 

And  Scudder's  witch  of  Endor. 

Obliging  all,  you  fear  no  harm 
From  disappointment's  angry  arm, 

No  cudgels,  sneers  or  libels  ; 
Alike  you  smile  on  worst  and  best, 
From  great  Rubens  and  quaker  "West, 

To  wooden  cuts  for  Bibles. 

Lo  !  next  the  Gallic  thunderbolt, 
Some  nameless,  shapeless,  ugly  dolt, 

His  plastic  phiz  advances  ; 
And  vestal  footsteps  lightly  tread, 
And  Cupids  sport  around  the  head, 

Of  gentle  Doctor  Francis.11'0 

While  placed  on  high  exalted  pegs, 
Apollo  blushes  for  his  legs, 

And  mourns  his  severed  fingers  ; 
Some  amorous  wight,  with  passion  drunk, 
O'er  Cythera's  headless  trunk, 

Luxuriously  lingers. 


THE  CROAKERS. 


Here  Dana?  rolls  her  humid  eyes, 
To  meet  the  ruler  of  the  skies, 

In  tricks  that  please  old  Satan; 
And  there,  our  eyes  delighted  trace 
The  scarlet  coat  and  lily  face 

Of  gallant  Captain  Creighton.191 

Here  West's  creative  pencil  shines,™ 
And  paints  in  tear-compelling  lines, 

Polony's  crazy  daughter ; 
A  hang-dog  king,  and  sheepish  queen, 
And  she  — that  looks  as  if  she'd  been 

Just  fished  up  from  the  water. 

Thy  glories  too  are  blazoned  there 
King  Ben's  first  born  immortal  heir- 
Apparent  to  the  pallet ; 
Orlando  weighs  his  cons  and  pros, 
Forgetting  quite  his  heedless  toes 
Are  in  the  Phoca's  gullet. 


"  I  can  not  but  remember  such  things  were, 
And  were  most  pleasant  to  me." 

Macbeth. 

Oh  !  where  are  now  the  lights  that  shed 

A  lustre  on  my  darkened  hours  ? 
The  priests  of  pleasure's  fane,  who  spread 
Each  night,  heneath  my  weary  head, 
Endymion's  moonlight  couch  of  flowers. 

~No  more  in  chains  of  music  bound, 

I  listen  to  those  airy  reels, 
When  quavering  Philipps  cuts  around 
Fantastic  pigeon-wings  of  sound, 
Like  Byrne,  who,  without  touching  ground, 

Eleven  times  can  cross  his  heels. 

"No  longer  Cooper's  tongue  of  tongues, 
Pumps  thunder  from  his  stormy  lungs  ; 

Turner  has  shut  his  classic  pages, 
Southward  his  face  Magenis  turns, 
And  for  the  halls  of  Congress  spurns 

The  mansion  of  our  civic  sages. 


THE  CROAKERS. 


By  Bobbins  fiigbted  from  our  coasts, 
My  Potter,  too,  suspends  his  tricks, 
While  to  amuse  old  Pluto's  hosts, 
Day  Francis  plays  to  grinning  ghosts 
His  juggles  on  the  shores  of  Styx. 

And  AVal lack  m  now  no  longer  dips 

In  bathos,  for  the  tragic  prize  ; 
And  Bartley's  melalogue,  that  slips 
Melodious  from  her  honied  lips, 
No  more  in  murmured  music  dies. 

Yet  tho'  fell  fortune  has  bereft 
My  heart  of  all  —  one  mode  is  left 

In  slumber's  vision  to  restore  'em: 
Weekly,  I'll  buy  with  pious  pence, 
A  dose  of  opiate  eloquence, 

And  sleep  in  quiet  at  the  Forum. 


TO  QUACKERY. 


Goddess  !  for  such,  thou  art,  who  rules 

This  honest  and  enlightened  city ; 
Thou  patroness  of  knaves  and  fools, 

To  thee  we  dedicate  our  ditty. 
Whether  in  Barclay  street  thou  sittest, 

Or,  on  papyrean  pinions  home, 
Dropping  mercurial  dews  thou  flittest 

Around  thine  own  anointed  Home.19 

Whether  arrayed  in  gown  and  hand 

Thy  pious  zeal  distributes  Bibles, 
Or  perched  on  Spooner's  classic  hand, 

Writes  many  eulogistic  libels  ; 
Where  e'er  we  turn  our  raptured  eyes 

We  see  this  puffing  generation, 
Cheered  by  thy  smile,  propitious,  rise 

To  profit,  power  and  reputation. 
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THE  CROAKERS. 


Then  come  ye  quacks  !  the  anthem  swell, 

Come  Allen  with  thy  lottery  hills, 
Come  four  herb  Angelis,195  who  fell 

From  Heaven  in  a  shower  of  pills. 
Come  Geih  ! 196  whose  potent  word  creates 

Prime  analytical  musicians, 
And  come  ye  hosts,  that  hold  brevets 

From  David's  college  of  physicians. 

And  thou,  botanic  Hosack,  bring 

Thy  slander-breathing  lips  along; 
Thy  name,  great  charlatan,  shall  ring 

The  monarch  of  the  motley  throng. 
Yet  Mitehill  may  the  votes  estrange, 

Or  Doctor  Clinton  to  confound  ye, 
Again  produce  some  queer  melange 

Of  scientific  Salmagundi. 

Clinton  !  the  name  my  fancy  fires, 

I  see  him  with  a  sage's  look, 
Fixhausting  nature  and  whole  quires 

Of  foolscap  —  in  his  wondrous  hook  ! 
Columbia's  genius  hovers  o'er  him. 

Fair  Science,  smiling,  lingers  near, 
Encyclopedias  lit-  before  him, 

And  Mitchill  whispers  in  his  ear. 


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Enough  !  the  swelling  wave  lias  borne 

Upon  its  bosom,  chief's  and  kings 
From  Mitchell  —  Clinton  —  Hosack — Horn e  — 

We  can  not  stop  to  meaner  things. 
Yet  once  again,  we'll  raise  the  song 

And  passing  forums,  banks  and  brokers, 
Join  with  the  bubble-blowing  throng, 

Seize  Quackery's  pipe,  and  puff  the  Croakers. 


THE  MILITIA. 


"So  some  cock-sparrow  in  a  farmer's  yard, 
1/ojis  at  l/ic  head  of  a  huge  flock  of  turkeys." 

Tom  Thumb. 

Mr.  Clinton,  whose  worth  we  shall  know  when  we've 
lost  him, 

Is  delightfully  free  of  his  gifts,  if  they  cost  him 
But  little  or  nothing,  like  smiles  and  brevets. 

With  what  wonderful  tact,  he  appreciates  merit 

In  bestowing  on  all  our  grown  lads  of  spirit, 
His  ensigns'  commissions  and  gold  epaulets. 

'Tis  amusing  to  see  these  young  nurslings  of  fame, 

With  their  flashes  of  crimson  and  collars  of  flame; 

Their  cock'd  hats  enchanting  —  their  buttons  divine; 

And  even  the  cloth  of  their  coats  —  superfine! 

Displaying,  around  us,  their  new  tinsel  riches. 
As  proud  as  a  boy  in  his  first  pair  of  breeches. 


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Ah  !  who  does  not  envy  their  steps  of  delight 

Through  the  streets,  at  t  he  side  of  their  warriors  pranc- 
ing; 

While,  seared  attheir  "chimney  sweep hadges,"  sohright 
Cartmen,  pigs  and  old  women  seek  safety  in  flight, 

As,  in  exquisite  order,  their  lines  are  advancing. 
Long-  live  the  militia!  from  sergeant  to  drummer 

They've  the  true  soldier-aspect,  chivalric  and  wild, 
In  their  clothes  of  more  hues  than  the  rainbow  of  summer, 

Or  the  coat  which  the  patriarch  wore  when  a  child  : 
Unawed  by  court-martials,  by  fines,  or  by  fears, 
They  glow  with  the  feelings  of  free  volunteers; 
How  imlike  British  tars,  with  a  rope's  end  held  o'er  'em, 
Their  hands  tied  behind,  and  a  pressgang  before  'em  ! 

Long  live  the  militia  !  thou  free  school  of  glory  ! 

Mapes,  Steddiford,  Colden  were  nurtured  by  thee  ; 
Lives  there  a  man  who  ne'er  heard  their  proud  story, 

"What  an  unlettered,  ignorant  dog  he  must  be ! 
From  the  Battery  flag-staff,  their  fame  has  ascended 

To  the  sand  hills  of  Greenwich  and  plains  of  Bellevue ; 
Andthe  belles  of  Park  place  forthe  palm  have  contended 

Of  rewarding  the  feats  they  have  promised  to  do. 
Let  the  poets  of  Europe  still  scribble  as  hard  as 

They  please,  of  their  Caesars  and  Bonys  to  tell, 
Be  ours  the  bright  names  of  Laight,  Ward  and  Bogardus, 

And  that  promising  genius,  the  brave  Colonel  Pell. 


NOTES. 


1.  Doctor  Laxgstaff,  an  Apothecary  in  this  city,  and  by  many 
reputed  the  discoverer  of  pure  magnesium  at  Hoboken. 

2.  Mordecai  Mannassah  Xoah  was  born  in  Philadelphia  in  1785, 
where  he  studied  law,  and  mingled  in  politics  and  literature.  In 
1813,  President  Madison  appointed  him  United  States  Consul  to 
Morocco.  He  returned  to  America  in  1819,  and  published  a  volume  of 
his  travels,  and  established  himself  at  New  York,  where  he  edited  the 
Xalional  Advocate.  In  1820,  he  formed  a  project  of  collecting  the  Jews 
upon  Grand  Island  in  the  Niagara  river,  but  this,  like  all  previous  at- 
tempts to  gather  this  people,  proved  abortive.  In  his  memorial  to  the 
Legislature  for  the  purchase  of  the  Island,  he  asked  for  a  law  giving 
sanction  to  the  measure,  to  remove  any  doubts  his  coreligionists  might 
have  about  removing  from  the  old  world  with  the  certainty  of  finding 
an  asylum  in  the  new.  A  monument  was  erected  on  the  Island  to 
commemorate  the  attempt,  and  upon  a  marble  tablet  was  inscribed  the 
following  inscription  : 

-rnx-n 

ARARAT. 

A  CITY  OF  REFTGE  FOR  THE  JEWS, 

Founded  by  Mordecu  M.  Noah,  in  the  month  of  'lizri,  55S6  (September,  1S25),  and 
in  the  oOth  year  of  American  Independence. 

In  1821,  he  was  appointed  Sheriff  of  New  York  by  the  Council  of 
Appointment.  lie  was  afterwards  connected  with  the  New  York  En- 
quirer and  the  Evening  Star,  and  established  the  Sunday  Times,  with 
which  paper  he  continued  until  his  death  on  the  22d  March.  1851. 
No  man  in  the  city  was  better  known  than  Major  Xoah,  and  no  man 
possessed  a  greater  fund  of  anecdote,  or  acquaintance  with  public 

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NOTES. 


characters,  with  whom  his  newspaper  undertakings  had  brought  him 
in  contact. — Ency.  of  Am.  Literature. 

3.  Lady  Morgan's  clever  book  on  France  had  been  recently  pub- 
lished. 

4.  Altorf,  a  tragedy,  by  Frances  Wright,  performed  at  the  Park 
Theatre.  It  enjoyed  but  a  brief  existence,  although  it  had  the  benefit 
of  an  excellent  cast  of  characters,  including  Wallack.  l'ritchard.  Mrs. 
Barnes  and  others.  It  was  first  performed  on  the  19th  February,  1819. 
The  play  was  published  by  Carey  &  Son  of  Philadelphia. 

5.  Micaii  Hawkins  wrote  a  play  called  The  Sawmill,  or  a  Yankee 
Trick,  which  was  performed  at  Barriere'e  Chatham  Theatre,  in  Chat- 
ham street,  below  Pearl  street. 

C.  Alden  Spooxer  was  the  publisher  of  the  New  York  Columbian, 
and  subsequently  of  the  Long  Island  Star. 

7.  The  firm  of  Sturgcs  &  Crowninshield,  received  a  discharge 
under  the  insolvent  law  of  this  state  in  1811.  The  contract  which 
formed  the  basis  of  this  suit,  was  made  before  the  passing  of  this  law. 
The  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  (Chief  Justice  Marshall  i 
decided  :  That  a  bankrupt  law  is  not  necessarily  such  a  law  as  dis- 
charges the  debt,  and.  therefore,  until  Congress  shall  exercise  the 
power  contained  in  the  Constitution,  by  passing  a  national  bankrupt 
law,  the  states  may  pass  bankrupt  laws  provided  they  be  not  such  laws 
as  impair  the  obligation  of  contracts.  "They  may  discharge  the 
person  of  an  insolvent  trader  from  liability  to  imprisonment,  but  they 
can  not  pass  a  law  annulling  the  contract,  or  discharging  the  liability 
of  future  acquisitions."' — X.  Y.  Columbian.  March.  lSl'.i. 

8.  Ciiaiu.es  X.  Baldwin  published  the  Republican  Chronicle  in  this 
city,  which  was  discontinued  on  the  Oth  March,  1819,  and  the  subscrip- 
tion list  transferred  to  the  Columbian. 

9.  This  famous  box  is  described  as  of  plain  gold,  with  a  chased 
rim.  It  bears  the  following  inscription  :  ••Presented  by  the  Mayor. 
Aldermen  and  Commonalty  of  tin-  City  of  New  York,  to  Maj'r.  (Jen. 
Andrew  .lackson.  with  the  freedom  of  the  city,  as  a  testimony  of  re- 
spect for  his  high  military  service."  The  presentation  took  place  on 
the  28d  Feb.  1819,  the  address  being  made  by  the  Mayor.  Cadwallader 


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D.  Colden.  GeneralJackson  retained  the  box  till  his,  death  in  June, 
1845,  when  the  following  disposition  of  it  was  found  in  his  last  will 
and  testament,  dated  7th  June,  184:!. 

•'The  gold  box  presented  to  me  by  the  Corporation  of  the  City  of 
New  York,  the  large  silver  vase  presented  to  me  by  the  ladies  of 
Charleston,  South  Carolina,  my  native  state,  with  the  large  picture 
representing  the  unfurling  of  the  American  banner,  presented  to  me 
by  the  citizens  of  South  Carolina  when  it  was  refused  to  be  accepted 
by  the  United  States  Senate.  I  leave  in  trust  to  my  son  A.  Jackson  jr., 
witli  directions  that  should  our  happy  country  not  be  blessed  with 
peace,  an  event  not  always  to  be  expected,  he  will,  at  the  close  of  the 
war,  or  end  of  the  conflict,  present  each  of  said  articles  of  inestimable 
value,  to  that  patriot  residing  in  the  city  or  state  from  which  they  were 
presented,  who  shall  be  adjudged  by  his  countrymen  or  the  ladies,  to 
have  been  the  most  valiant  in  defence  of  his  country  and  our  country  's 
rights." 

The  enlistment  of  New  York  Volunteers  in  the  Mexican  war,  which 
ended  with  the  capitulation  of  Mexico,  gave  an  opportunity  for  the 
executor  of  the  will,  Andrew  Jackson,  the  son  of  the  testator,  to  dis- 
charge the  trust.  In  18o7,  he  was  in  correspondence  with  the  Common 
Council  of  New  York,  and  arrangements  were  made,  which  promised 
the  delivery  of  the  box  to  Lt.  Col.  Garret  Dyckman,  of  the  regiment  of 
Volunteers.  A  committee  of  the  Volunteers  had  arranged  a  military 
parade  for  the  occasion;  Mr.  Jackson  was  in  the  city  with  the  box  in 
his  possession,  when,  at  the  last  moment,  he  sent,  in  a  letter,  his  "re- 
gret at  the  division  of  sentiment  and  the  excited  feelings  "  which  had 
come  to  his  knowledge  with  reference  to  the  disposal  of  the  box,  which 
lie  bore  away  with  him  to  be  kept  for  a  clearer  expression  of  public 
opinion.  In  1859,  it  was  finally  awarded  to  Gen.  Ward  B.  Burnett,  the 
Colonel  of  the  New  York  regiment  .which  participated  in  the  brilliant 
operations  at  Vera  Cruz,  Cerro  Gordo,  Contreras  and  Cherubusco.  The 
presentation  was  made  at  the  City  Hall,  Nashville,  Tenn.  Dr.  John  M. 
Lawrence  for  his  father-in-law,  Andrew  Jackson,  the  executor,  and 
General  Billow  receiving  the  bequest  in  behalf  of  General  Burnett, 
who  was  unavoidably  absent  on  a  western  government  exploration. 
Thus  ends  the  present  history  of  the  Jackson  snuff-box,  inaugurated 
by  Drake  in  the  Croakers. 

10.  Bartholomew  Skaats,  or  Barty  Shunts,  as  he  was  familiarly 
called,  was  for  many  years  Crier  of  the  Courts,  which  were  held  in  the 
old  City  Hall  in  Wall  street.  Both  he  and  his  wife  are  identified  with 
the  past  history  of  the  city.    They  were  excellent  personifications  of 


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respectable  Dutch  character,  in  dress,  in  habits,  in  hospitality,  in 
prudence  and  industry.  The  good  cheer  and  excellent  hospitality  of 
this  worthy  couple,  led  to  the  establishment  of  the  Tea  Room,  for 
many  years  so  celebrated.  When  the  present  City  Hall  was  finished, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Skaats  removed  to  it  as  keepers.  Soon  afterwards  a 
suggestion  was  made  to  them  to  establish  in  their  rooms,  a  regular 
table  for  the  Common  Council  and  its  guests,  and  to  attend  to  it,  at 
the  expense  of  the  Corporation.  Mr.  Skaats  being  well-to-do  in  the 
world,  indignantly  declined  the  proposition,  and  resigned  his  situation 
as  keeper,  anil  Abraham  Martling.  the  keeper  of  Tammany  Hall,  suc- 
ceeded him. — Corporation  Manual. 

11.  A  grand  dinner  was  given  to  General  Jackson  at  Tammany 
Hall,  on  the  23d  Feb.  1819,  in  honor  of  his  visit  to  this  city.  The 
hall  was  crowded,  and  the  toast  "To  General  Jackson,  so  long  as  the 
Mississippi  rolls  its  waters  to  the  ocean,  so  long  may  his  great  name 
and  glorious  deeds  be  remembered,"  was  replied  to  by  the  General, 
who  proposed  "  De  Witt  Clinton,  Governor  of  the  great  and  patriotic 
State  of  New  York,"  to  the  utter  confusion  of  the  Buektails,  who 
looked  upon  Clinton  as  their  bitterest  foe.  General  Jackson,  perfectly 
independent  of  all  parties,  had  conceived:,  great  admiration  for  Mr. 
Clinton,  although  he  was,  at  that  time,  personally  unacquainted  with 
him,  and  hence  the  toast.  The  greatest  confusion  ensued,  amid  which 
the  General  left  the  room. 

12.  Mead  and  Hawkins  were  destitute  of  voice,  and  those  who 
knew  their  want  of  ability,  could  appreciate  the  satire  in  this  line. 

13.  John  P.  Haff,  Sachem  of  the  Tammany  Society,  and  after- 
wards Surveyor  of  the  Port  of  New  York. 

14.  Abraham  Bi.ooncoon,  a  leading  man  at  Tammany  Hall. 

16.  Cahwai.i.adkr  D.  Coi.df.n  succeeded  Do  Witt  Clinton  as  Mayor 
of  New  York  in  1818,  and  was  afterwards  elected  to  Congress,  and  to 
the  State  Senate.  He  bestowed  much  attention  in  devising  the  means  of 
promoting,  in  various  ways,  the  improvement  of  the  community  to 
which  he  belonged.  The  public  schools  of  New  York  and  the  Society 
for  the  Reformation  of  Juvenile  Delinquents  especially  ranked  him 
among  their  most  efficient  patrons,  lie  was  one  of  the  earliest  and 
most  zealous  promoters  of  the  system  of  internal  improvements  in  the 
state.  In  the  history  of  the  Krie  canal,  his  name  is  often  mentioned  in 


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connection  with  measures  conducive  to  tlie  accomplishment  of  that 
work;  the  Mmtoir  of  which,  by  him,  was  printed  by  the  Common 
Council  of  this  city.  He  died  at  Jersey  City  on  the  7th  of  February, 
1834. 

16.  Gen.  Robert  Bogardus  was  for  nearly  fifty  years  a  member  of 
the  New  York  bar.  He  was  a  member  of  the  State  Senate  from  1827 
to  182'.»  inclusive,  and  for  many  years  an  active  member  of  the  New 
York  militia,  having  with  Cadwallader  1).  ('olden  received  the  appoint- 
ment of  brevet  Brigadier-General  from  Gov.  Clinton.  He  died  in  this 
city  on  the  12th  September,  1842. 

17.  Dennis  H.  Doyle,  an  Irishman,  who  from  humble  beginnings 
accumulated  a  fortune,  and  retired  to  Ulster  county,  where  he  died. 

18.  Gurdon  S.  Mumfokd,  a  merchant  of  this  city,  and  during  six 
years  a  member  of  Congress. 

19.  Doctor  Bronat/gh,  a  Military  Surgeon,  "was  attached  to  Gen. 
Jackson's  staff  during  the  whole  Seminole  campaign,"  and  was  a 
strong  personal  friend  of  Jackson. 

20.  In  the  Assembly  Journal  of  this  year,  under  date  Sept.  f^t li . 
there  appears  a  resolution  offered  by  Gen.  Boot,  which  passed,  calling 
on  Gov.  Clinton  for  a  list  of  his  brevet  appointments.  The  Governor 
sent  it  in,  amounting  to  nineteen  brevet  Major  Generals,  thirteen 
Brigadiers  and  sixty-six  other  military  officers. — Assembly  Journal, 
1819. 

21.  The  late  Major  Gen.  Morton,  who  was  in  command  of  the 
militia  in  this  district  at  the  time,  and  in  which  he  continued  until  his 
death.  He  also  held  the  office  of  Clerk  to  the  Common  Council  for 
twenty-six  years,  and  died  while  still  an  incumbent  of  that  office  in 
December  1836,  at  an  age  exceeding  eighty  years. 

23.  Doctor  Charles  King,  now  President  of  Columbia  College  in 
this  city. 

24.  Ferris  Pell  wrote  a  defense  of  Clinton's  administration,  en- 
titled A  Review  of  the  Administration  and  Civil  Police  of  the  Stale  of 
New  York  from  1807  to  1819. 


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25.  William  Bayard  was  one  of  the  firm  of  Le  Roy,  Bayard  & 
McEvers,  prominent  merchants  of  New  York,  and  nearly  related,  by 
marriage,  to  General  Stephen  Van  Rensselaer  of  Albany. 

26.  Sami'kl  Swartwott  was  for  many  years  connected  with  public 
life  in  this  country.  In  his  youth,  he  became  personally  attached  to 
the  late  Col.  Burr,  and  the  friendship  continued  until  his  death. 
General  Jackson  appointed  Mr.  Swartwout  Collector  of  the  Port  of 
New  York,  which  office  he  held  until  he  was  detected  in  serious  defal- 
cations, upon  which  lie  left  for  Europe,  where  he  remained  for  two 
years,  and  then  returned  to  this  city.  He  resided  here  until  his  death 
in  November  1850.  In  1 H 1 4.  Messrs.  Samuel  and  Robert  Swartwout 
purchased  4000  acres  of  land  at  Hoboken,  Xew  Jersey.  It  was  at  that 
time  sunken,  spongy  and  uncongenial  to  vegetation,  being  subject  to 
the  constant  overflowing  of  the  tide  waters.  They  immediately  com- 
menced to  reclaim  the  land  by  erecting  permanent  dikes  and  opening 
ditches.  By  the  year  1819,  they  had  made  seven  and  a  half  miles  of 
embankment,  and  one  hundred  and  twenty  miles  of  ditches.  Two 
thousand  acres  were  enclosed  by  dikes  and  thirteen  hundred  acres 
completely  drained  and  under  successful  cultivation.  About  one 
hundred  cows  were  in  this  year  fed  upon  these  reclaimed  marshes, 
and  their  milk  sent  to  the  New  York  market.  Grain  of  various  kinds 
and  vegetables  in  abundance  were  also  raised.  The  funds  of  the 
proprietors  appear  to  have  now  run  out,  for  in  1819  they  applied  to 
the  Corporation  of  New  York  for  aid  to  complete  their  work.  The 
application  was  not  successful  and  the  project  was  abandoned.  —  Evt. 
Post,  Jiihi  24,  1819. 

27.  Mr.  POTTEB  gave  exhibitions  in  ventriloquism  in  Washington 
Hall  in  Broadway,  where  Stewart's  store  now  stands. 

28.  Levi  BOBBINS  was.  in  1810.  a  member  of  Assembly  from  Lewis 
county.  He  took  a  leading  part  in  the  first  temperance  movement  in 
that  section  of  the  state,  and  as  a  town  officer  instituted  several  suits 
against  persons  for  violating  the  excise  law  then  existing.  These 
proceedings  excited  much  discussion  among  his  fellow  townsmen,  and 
his  course  was  warmly  defended  or  opposed,  according  to  the  instincts 
of  each.  He  is  still  living  —  the  perfect  model  of  a  Baptist  deacon, 
his  face  still  set  against  sin  in  every  form,  and  we  will  venture  to  say. 
as  ready  now  to  promote  as  he  was  then  to  present  any  document 
kindred  to  the  ••memorial  of  a  convention  id'  delegates  from  the  seve- 
ral moral  societies  within  this  state,  praying  for  the  enaction  of  certain 


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legal  provisions  for  the  suppression  of  vice  and  immorality,"  which 
was  offered  by  him  about  this  time.  The  journals  do  not  show  that  a 
bill  was  actually  introduced,  and  the  occasion  which  prompted  this 
poem  proved  a  false  alarm. 

29.  Erastus  Root  made  his  first  appearance  in  public  life  in  the 
State  Assembly  in  the  year  1798.  He  continued  for  many  years  in  the 
Legislature,  and  though  somewhat  uncouth  and  rough  in  his  manners, 
and  occasionally  rude  in  his  expressions,  his  wit  was  keen,  and  his 
sarcasm  severe  and  biting.  He  seized  with  great  effect  upon  the  pro- 
minent points,  and  especially  those  points  most  likely  to  make  an  im- 
pression upon  the  public  ear,  and  pressed  them  with  a  power  almost 
irresistible.  His  illustrations  were  exceedingly  clear  and  well  chosen, 
and  his  attacks  upon  his  opponents  were  severe  almost  to  ferocity. 
His  attacks  upon  De  Witt  Clinton  and  his  canal  policy  were  especially 
marked.  He  was  perfectly  at  home  on  all  matters  relating  to  the 
historj-  of  the  operations  of  both  great  political  parties.  He  had  much 
parliamentary  tact,  and  although  lie  was  reckless  in  his  expressions, 
he  was  a  man  of  correct  literary  taste,  and  though  irregular  in  his 
habits,  of  highly  cultivated  intellect. — Hammond' s  Political  History. 

30.  Abraham  Martuxg  kept  a  tavern  on  the  corner  of  Nassau  and 
Spruce  streets,  and  afterwards  became  Proprietor  of  Tammany  Hall. 
On  the  resignation  of  Mr.  Skaats,  he  was  appointed  Keeper  of  the 
City  Hall. 

31.  Peter  Siiarte,  a  member  of  the  Assembly  from  the  city  of  New 
York  in  181-">,  and  from  1817  to  1821  inclusive.  He  was  Speaker  of 
the  Assembly  in  the  latter  year. 

32.  Obadiah  German  of  Chenango  county,  made  his  first  appear- 
ance in  public  life  in  1798  in  the  Assembly  of  this  State.  Although 
uneducated,  he  was  a  bold  and  resolute  man.  of  great  intellectual  strength 
and  vigor.  He  acquired  great  influence  in  the  Legislature  of  the  State, 
and  in  18(19  was  elected  Senator  of  the  United  States,  as  the  successor 
of  Doctor  Mitch  ill.  In  1818,  he  was  again  elected  to  the  Assembly  of 
the  State,  and  was  made  Speaker  of  the  House. — Hammond. 

33.  Ezekiel  Bacon,  late  Comptroller  of  the  United  States  Treasury, 
a  Clintonian  member  from  Oneida  and  Oswego  counties,  was  a  man  of 
considerable  talent,  but  the  strength  and  vigor  of  his  mind  had  been 
greatly  impaired  by  a  nervous  disease.  He  now  resides  in  Utica  at  an 
advanced  age. — Hammond. 


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34.  Mr.  Svi.vani  s  Mii.i.eii  was  appointed  Surrogate  of  New  York 
in  1801.  At  t lie  time  of  li is  appointment,  he  was  a  resident  of  Ulster 
county,  and  the  New  York  people  complained  of  the  Council,  for 
importing  a  Surrogate  from  the  country.  He  was  the  ardent  friend  of 
De  Witt  Clinton,  and  always  continued  his  unwavering  supporter. 
The  good  nature  and  prepossessing  deportment  of  Mr.  Miller  soon 
gained  him  the  good  will  of  the  New  Yorkers.  Possessed  of  tine  con- 
versational powers,  and  ready  wit,  which  was  dealt  out  in  such  a 
manner  as  never  to  wound  the  feelings  of  others,  and  of  a  disposition 
the  most  social,  he  soon  became  the  favorite  of  all  who  knew  him. 
Be  held  the  office  of  Surrogate,  which  in  the  great  city  of  New  York 
is  a  highly  important  one,  from  August,  1K01,  till  February,  1821,  with 
an  interval  of  one  year.  He  is  still  living  in  this  city  at  a  very 
advanced  age. — Hammond. 

35.  The  corner  stone  of  the  Park  Theatre  was  laid  in  1705,  but,  owing 
to  a  quarrel  between  the  managers,  Hallam  and  Hodgkinson.  was  not 
completed  until  17!>8.  Mr.  Dunlap  shortly  after  undertook  the  man- 
agement, which  he  continued  until  1808,  when  it  passed  into  the  hands 
of  Messrs.  Cooper  and  Price.  When  Mr.  Cooper  retired,  Mr.  Simpson 
became  associated  with  Mr.  Price.  During  their  management,  it  was 
burned  (in  1821),  but  was  immediat«ly  rebuilt,  and  opened  for  dramatic 
representation  on  the  1st  September  of  the  same  year.  Mr.  Price  died 
in  18411,  and  Mr.  Simpson  assumed  the  sole  direction  of  the  establish- 
ment, which  he  continued  until  1848,  when  owing  to  his  misfortunes, 
it  passed  into  the  hands  of  Mr.  Thomas  S.  Hamblin,  anil  in  December 
of  that  year  it  was  again  destroyed  by  fire,  and  not  rebuilt.  It  is 
generally  Supposed  that  the  loss  of  the  lease  of  the  theatre  was  the 
proximate  cause  of  Mr.  Simpson's  death,  which  took  place  shortly 
after  Mr.  Hamblin  obtained  the  lease.  Twice,  whilst  he  was  in  the 
management  of  the  theatre,  he  might  have  retired  with  a  large  fortune: 
but  his  love  of  the  profession,  and  the  entreaties  of  friendship,  induced 
him  to  sutt'er  the  golden  opportunities  to  pass  by.  As  a  manager,  he 
was  dignified,  able  and  untiring.  He  possessed  a  refined  taste,  and 
was  familiar  with  every  thing  connected  with  the  drama  and  dramatic 
literature. — AT.  V.  Alius. 

30.  Samiki.  Woodwoutii,  the  son  of  a  Massachusetts  farmer,  was 
born  in  178").  He  was  apprenticed  to  a  printer  in  Boston,  and  after 
the  expiration  of  his  indentures,  lie  removed  to  New  Haven,  and  com- 
menced a  paper  called  the  Utiles  Lettrcs  Reporitory,  of  which  he  WM 
••editor,  publisher,  printer,  and  sometimes  carrier."'    It  was  discon- 


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tinned  after  a  month  or  two.  Mr.  Woodworth  afterwards  came  to  this 
city,  but  was  equally  unsuccessful  with  the  periodicals  he  commenced 
here.  The  New  York  Mirror  was  undertaken  by  him  in  connection 
with  Gen.  Morris,  but  at  the  end  of  a  year  Mr.  AVoodworth  left.  He 
worked  at  his  trade,  and  occasionally  contributed  verses  and  patri- 
otic songs  to  the  periodicals  of  the  day,  and  wrote  a  play  called  the 
Forest  Rose  which  was  performed  at  the  old  Chatham  Theatre,  and 
still  keeps  possession  of  the  stage.  In  his  latter  years  he  suffered 
from  paralysis,  and  died  on  the  9th  December,  1842. — Eney.  of  Am. 
Lit. 

37.  Mr.  William  Coleman*  came  to  this  city  from  Massachusetts, 
and  established  the  Evening  Post  in  1801.  "He  was  a  sensitive  man. 
of  great  tenacity  of  opinion,  which  he  cherished  by  intercourse  with 
many  of  the  leading  patriots  and  politicians  who  were  among  us  some 
fifty  years  ago."  He  continued  the  sole  editor  of  the  paper  until 
181 9,  when  his  health  was  seriously  affected  by  a  paralytic  attack, 
and  it  became  necessary  for  him  to  have  a  coadjutor  in  his  labors. 
His  connection  with  the  paper  continued  until  his  death,  which  took 
place  in  the  summer  of  1819. 

38.  Miss  Catharine  Leescgg  made  her  first  appearance  in  New 
York  Sept.  1st,  1818,  in  the  characters  of  Jessy  Oatland  and  Marian 
Ramsay.  She  possessed  a  buxom  figure,  a  clear,  melodious  voice, 
great  sprightliness  and  vivacity,  and  won  her  way  at  once  to  public 
favor.  Her  forte  was  comedy:  her  merry  country  lasses  have  not  since 
been  equaled,  and  although  she  sometimes  played  tragic  parts,  she  was 
not  so  happy  in  them.  In  1819,  while  in  the  height  of  her  popularity, 
she  married  Mr.  James  Hackett,  and  left  the  stage.  She  resumed  the 
profession  in  1  Sii<>.  and  was  for  several  years  afterwards  one  of  the 
favorites  of  the  town.  Her  last  appearance  was  for  her  husband's 
benefit  at  the  National  Theatre,  in  Leonard  street,  on  the  19th  May, 
18:;.s.  she  died  at  her  residence,  Jamaica,  L.  I.,  December  4th,  184"), 
aged  47  years. — Playgoers'  Journal. 

39.  Mr.  HOPPER,  a  native  of  this  city,  was  attached  to  the  Park 
Theatre  dining  the  year  1819,  and  played  minor  parts,  lie  remained 
but  a  short  time  upon  the  boards. 

40.  Robert  Campbell  Maywood  made  his  first  appearance  in  New 
York  in  January,  1819,  as  Richard  III.  lie  played  the  usual  round  of 
characters  in  tragedy  and  melo-drama,  and  gave  general  satisfaction. 

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His  Sir  Pertinax  McSycophani  is  said  never  to  have  beeu  equaled  on 
the  American  stage,  except  by  Cooke.  Mr.  Maywood  remained  in 
New  York  about  ten  years,  and  afterwards  managed  the  theatres  in 
Philadelphia  and  Baltimore.  His  last  appearance  in  this  city  was  in 
18-1-")  at  the  Olympic  Theatre  in  Broadway.  He  died  within  the  last 
three  years  in  very  reduced  circumstances. 

41.    The  Declaration  of  Independence. 

12.  Col.  John  Tbumbull  of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  died  in  New  York 
on  the  1  Oth  November,  18-18,  aged  87  years.  He  was  born  at  Lebanon, 
Ct.,  June  9th,  17o(>.  His  father,  Jonathan  Trumbull,  was  Governor  of 
Connecticut,  during  the  whole  war  of  the  revolution.  At  an  early  age, 
John  Trumbull  entered  the  revolutionary  army,  and  after  serving  with 
his  regiment  in  the  field,  became  a  member  of  Gen.  Washington's 
military  family.  During  the  revolution,  he  went  to  Europe,  to  perfect 
himself  in  his  favorite  art  of  painting,  having  it  always  at  heart  to 
perpetuate  on  canvas  some  of  the  great  scenes  and  great  men  of  the 
revolution.  Four  of  his  historical  paintings,  the  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence, the  Surrender  at  Saratoga,  the  Surrender  of  Cornwallis, 
and  the  Resignation  of  Gen.  Washington  at  Annapolis,  arc  preserved 
in  the  rotunda  of  the  Capitol  at  Washington,  and  although  they  arc 
not  marked  by  the  highest  qualities  of  genius,  they  do  honor  to  his 
reputation  as  an  artist.  While  in  England  he  became,  by  the  choice 
of  William  Pinckney  and  Christopher  Gore,  the  fifth  commissioner 
under  the  Jay  treaty,  for  the  settlement  of  American  claims  upon 
England  ;  and  holding,  as  he  did,  the  determining  vote  on  all  contested 
cases,  he  was  so  fortunate  as  to  acquire  the  entire  respect  and 
confidence  of  both  parties,  by  the  strict  impartiality  and  justice  of  his 
decisions.  As  a  soldier,  an  artist,  a  diplomatist,  and  a  gentleman,  he 
was  honored  and  beloved  through  several  generations. — Am.  Almanac. 

43.  Mr.  Jacob  Shkbked,  a  Painter  and  Glazier,  accumulated  a 
large  property  by  his  business,  which  he  conducted  in  Broad  street  in 
this  city.  An  obituary  notice  of  him  in  the  Evening  Post  of  80th 
March,  1821,  says:  "He  closed  a  life  of  usefulness  and  benevolence, 
in  a  manner  worthy  of  the  brightness  of  its  course.  The  greater  pari 
of  his  large  fortune  was  bequeathed  to  the  Protestant  Kpiscop.il 
Theological  School  in  the  State  of  New  York." 


Pointed  Tjv 


JO  STAT  MASS  TlIIi'iJJLi. 


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147 


44.  A  general  meeting  of  t lie  citizens  was  called  at  Washington 
Hall,  to  protest  against  taxing  the  property  of  the  citizens  generally, 
instead  of  those  more  nearly  interested  in  the  improvement  of  enlarg- 
ing the  Battery.  This  meeting  was  held  on  the  lid  March,  18V.I,  and 
a  second  meeting  was  held  on  the  12th  of  the  same  month,  to  hear  the 
report  of  a  committee  upon  the  subject.  The  Evening  Post  of  the  15th 
March,  says :  . 

"General  Bogardus,  chairman  of  a  committee  of  seven,  appointed 
at  a  previous  meeting,  read  a  long  and  tedious  memorial  to  I  he  Le- 
gislature against  the  contemplated  improvements,  and  Mr.  Thomas  K. 
Mercein,  who  was  one  of  the  minority,  then  read  a  well  drawn  up 
protest  against  it.  Several  persons  tried  to  address  the  meeting,  but 
SO  numerous  was  the  collection,  and  so  great  the  clamor,  that  nothing 
could  be  heard  but  "question,  question."  The  chairman  then  put  it 
on  the  acceptance  of  the  report  of  the  committee,  and  all  accounts 
agree  that,  there  was  a  majority  of  two  to  one,  or  three  to  two  against 
it.  The  chairman  however,  being  himself  in  favor  of  the  report,  de- 
clined to  declare  it,  on  which  there  was  a  call  for  a  division  of  the 
house,  but  the  crowd  was  so  great,  this  was  difficult  to  be  accomplished, 
and  after  an  ineffectual  attempt  by  Gen.  Bogardus  to  obtain  an  adjourn- 
ment, the  chairman  abdicated  the  chair,  and  he  and  the  general  left 
the  room.  Col.  .Murray  was  then  called  to  the  chair,  but  he  made  a 
short  speech,  and  advised  the  people  to  go  home,  as  the  object  of  the 
meeting  was  defeated.  Thus  has  ended  this  attempt  of  certain  men  to 
array  the  people  against  the  constituted  authorities  of  the  city;  and  it 
is  strongly  believed,  they  were  secretly  influenced  by  political  motives, 
and  intended  to  make  what  they  thought  would  be  a  veiy  popular 
measure,  subservient  to  party  views  at  the  ensuing  election.  If  so,  it 
may  literally  be  said  "they  counted  without  their  host." 

4">.  Washington  Hall  stood  on  the  south-east  corner  of  Broadway 
and  Reade  street.  It  was  built  by  the  Washington  Benevolent  Society 
in  1809,  and  was  the  head-quarters  of  the  Federalists  in  this  city,  until 
their  dissolution  as  a  party.  The  building  was  afterwards  sold  to  Mr. 
John  G.  Costar,  ami  it  was  kept  as  a  hotel  until  the  year  1844,  when 
on  the  4th  of  .Inly  of  that  year,  it  was  burned  down,  and  Mr.  A.  T. 
Stewart  became  the  purchaser.  It  now  forms  a  portion  of  the  store 
occupied  by  that  gentleman. 

46.  Lewis  Haktman,  Ks<(..  presided  at  the  meeting,  and  Mr.  ('has. 
King  was  Secretary. 


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NOTES. 


47.  Col.  Thomas  R.  Mercein  was  a  member  of  the  Legislature  from 
this  city  in  1811  and  1812.  and  was  distinguished  for  his  activity  and 
usefulness  as  a  citizen.     He  died  24th  October,  184o. — Am.  Almanac. 

48.  James  Lent  was  Register  of  the  city  and  county  of  New  York. 

49.  Mr.  N.  Prime,  of  the  firm  of  Prime,  Ward  &  King.  Bankers  in 
Wall  street. 

50.  While  no  person  became  a  more  marked  object  of  satire  in  these 
poems  than  Governor  Clinton,  it  is  proper  to  remark  that  no  one  en- 
joyed the  Croakers  more  than  he  did. 

51.  This,  we  understand,  is  a  typographical  error;  it  should  be 
paramount  obligation. — Ed.  Eve.  Post. 

52.  We  believe  this  is  a  mistake  of  the  poet's.  Mr.  H.  was  com- 
mercial agent  at  Havana. — Ed.  Eve.  Post. 

53.  We  understand  that  this  declaration  as  to  J.  A.  II.,  was  gra- 
tuitously made.  The  political  opinions  of  these  two  gentlemen  have 
differed  very  widely  for  the  last  four  or  five  j-ears. — JEd.  Eve.  Post. 

54.  This  poem,  as  printed  in  the  Evening  Post,  was  prefixed  with 
the  following  lines  written  by  Mr.  Coleman  : 

"Sage  of  Plandome '.  to  give  thy  due, 
Fredonian,  Frede  and  l-'redon  "  too  — 

55.  The  name  given  by  our  learned  philosopher  to  the  steam  ship 
upon  her  being  launched  during  the  late  war.  —  Ed.  Eve.  Post. 

56.  Mummy-chogs,  the  popular  name  of  the  t'nndulus,  a  common 
fish  in  the  bays  near  New  York. 

5fi.  Referring  to  the  work  entitled  Live*  and  Portraits  of  Distin- 
guished Americans,  by  Joseph  Dclaplaine,  Philadelphia.  181(1-18,  '1 
vols.  4to. 

*57.  John  Mixsiirix,  an  Knglishman  by  birth,  was  a  butt  of  the 
critics  of  his  day.  He  wrote  and  published,  "printed  for  the  author," 
Rural  Felicity,  an  opera:  a  comedy,  entitled.  The  Sprightly  Widow  in 


NOTES. 


149 


the  Frolics  of  Youth  ;  or  a  speed;/  way  of  uniting  the.  Sexes  by  Honorable 
Marriage,  New  York,  1803;  He  Stoops  to  Conquer,  or  the  Virgin  Wife 
Triumphant ;  a  comedy  in  three  acts.  New  York  1804  ;  The  Merry  Dames, 
or  the  Humourisfs  Triumph  over  the  Poet  in  Petticoats,  and  the  Gallant 
Exploits  of  the  Knight  of  the  Comb,  New  York,  1805.  Minshull's  plays 
were  performed  at  the  Park  Theatre.  The  wits  humoured  his  jokes  by 
loud  applause,  and  called  on  him  for  a  speech  from  the  stage  box. 
His  portrait,  engraved  by  Scoles,  ruffled  and  queued,  a  sprightly, 
perked-up  physiognomy,  is  prefixed  to  the  edition  of  his  plays  ;  his  coat 
of  arms  with  a  crescent,  and  the  motto  In  hoc plenius  redibo,  figures  be- 
neath, with  the  motto  : 

Next  view  and  peruse  my  plan, 

Refrain  from  laughing  who  can. 

58.  James  K.  Paulding. 

So  have  I  seen  in  garden  rich  and  gay, 

A  stately  cabbage  waxing  fat  each  day; 

Unlike  the  lively  foliage  of  the  trees, 

Its  stubborn  leaves  ne'er  wave  in  summer  breeze, 

Nor  flower,  like  those  that  prank  the  walks  around, 

Upon  its  clumsy  stem  is  ever  found; 

It  heeds  not  noontide  heats,  or  evening's  balm, 

And  stands  unmov'd  in  one  eternal  calm. 

At  last,  when  all  the  garden's  pride  is  lust. 

It  ripens  in  drear  autumn's  killing  frost, 

And  in  a  sav'ry  sourkrout  finds  its  end. 

From  which  detested  dish,  me  Heaven  defend ! 

Backwoodsman,  Book  II. 

59.  Henry  Meigs,  of  New  York  city,  represented  the  Second  Con- 
gressional District  in  the  sixteenth  Congress,  1819-1821. 

GO.  The  tragedy  of  Brutus  has  been  censured  for  want  of  origin- 
ality, which  the  writer  acknowledges,  by  admitting  that  he  borrowed 
the  ideas  and  occasionally  the  words  of  others,  but  a  great  proof  of 
its  merit  is  that  it  is  the  only  one  of  eight  plays  upon  the  same  subject 
that  keeps  possession  of  the  stage. — Playgoers'  Journal. 

01.  Thomas  Kilxer  made  his  first  appearance  at  the  Park  Theatre 
in  December,  1818,  as  Sir  Abel  Handy,  and  soon  proved  himself  a 
valuable  acquisition  to  the  company.  He  played  principally  in  old 
men,  and  whether  serious  or  comic,  seldom  failed  to  represent  them  to 


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NOTES. 


the  satisfaction  of  tlic  audience.  He  afterwards  went  to  Boston,  where 
lie  was  manager  of  the  theatre,  and  last  played  in  New  York,  at  the 
Bowery  Theatre,  in  ls:!7.  He  finally  removed  to  Ohio,  where  he  was 
living  in  185"). — Playgoers'  Journal. 

02.  Harry  Geobge  Morki.axu  was  from  the  York  Theatre,  and 
was  a  useful  and  available  actor.  He  was  a  pleasing  singer,  a  correct 
reader,  and  as  an  actor  in  the  lighter  characters  of  the  drama  always 
gave  satisfaction.     He  died  in  New  York,  l:ilh  June,  1832. 

63.  On  the  2d  Sept.,  1818.  Mr.  James  Howard,  from  the  Brighton 
Theatre,  made  his  first  appearance  as  Henry  Hertram.  lie  hail  a  sweet 
tenor  voice,  a  good  face  and  figure,  and  as  a  vocalist  for  several  years 
enjoyed  the  highest  favor.  He  last  played  at  the  Park  Theatre,  in 
1828,  and  in  1837  appeared  for  the  last  time  in  New  York,  at  Nildo's 
Garden,  on  crutches,  having  had  one  or  both  legs  fractured  during  his 
retirement.    He  died  in  Philadelphia  in  1848. 

04.  Mr.  Garxer  appeared  on  the  3d  Sept.  1818,  and  was  a  valuable 
acquisition  for  the  lighter  operatic  parts.  He  afterwards  played  at 
the  Lafayette  Theatre  in  I. aureus  street  in  1828.  and  died  in  Baltimore 
1843. — Playgoers'  Journal. 

05.  The  following  letter  addressed  to  the  Editor,  was  written  by  Mr. 
Coleman,  and  prefixed  to  the  poem  to  John  Lang: 

"Monday  evening  —  0  o'clock. 

'•Mr.  Editor. 

"As  soon  as  it  was  dark  I  repaired  to  the  usual  place,  and  there 
found  your  note  inclosing  the  lines  alluded  to  in  this  evening's  paper, 
on  the  subject  of  Mr.  Lang,  who  in  Saturday  morning's  Gazette,  pre- 
tends that  he  had  received  a  'poetic  effusion,'  as  he  calls  it,  from  us. 
and  which  lie  said  was  too  personal  for  his  paper.  Personalities  are 
become  quite  alarming  to  Mr.  Lang  ever  since  the  suit  of  Jacob  Barker 
for  what  he  said  of  the  red  notes.  However,  the  purpose  of  this  is  to 
convince  Mr.  Lang  that  1  have  been  among  the  most  attentive  of  his 
readers  and  admirers  for  years:  with  delight  have  I  enjoyed  his  well- 
turned  paragraphs,  and  his  witty  expressions,  some  of  which  could 
not  escape  my  memory.  Like  Falstaff  'he  is  not  only  witty  himself, 
but  the  cause  of  wit  in  others."  So  here  we  go."  In  the  NtlC  York 
ti'a-rttr  of  20th  March,  18P.I,  appears  the  following:  "The  poetic 
effusion  of  Croaker  it  Co.  is  too  personal  for  this  Gazette."' 


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ILAIFATTIMPTTI  TOSIlIATmil, 

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EW«lftA'>E,H}  BY  JAMES  EUJDTf,  FROM  THE  TLAEJ  KSB  05E81CN  OP  PETER  CRAI  ft, 

FOR  TIME  H1EW-YORK.  MIRROR, 
AKTID  ILAHMIES0 1,  II  TP  IE  R  AIRY  <GA K  IE  TTTJE  „ 

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151 


66.  Mr.  John  Lang  was  born  in  the  city  of  New  Fork,  in  177". 
For  forty  years  he  conducted  the  New  York  (lazette,  which  was  recog- 
nized as  the  leading  commercial  paper.  Its  distinction  was  unques- 
tionably its  attention  to  the  shipping  interests  of  this  city,  for  in 
political  or  miscellaneous  matter,  it  was  sadly  deficient.  Lang's 
prominent  object  of  consideration  was  arriralx,  and  t lie  mightiest 
changes  of  revolutions,  in  actions  or  opinions,  found  but  a  passing 
notice  in  his  paper.  But  from  the  support  of  the  mercantile  community, 
the  paper  flourished,  and  Mr.  Lang  became  rich.  lie  was  devoted  to 
his  pursuits,  and  no  one  could  excel  him  in  kindness  of  demeanor, 
lie  was  a  gentleman  of  the  old  school,  of  great  moral  excellence,  and 
deeply  devoted  to  the  interests  of  the  city,    lie  died  in  the  year  1836. 

67.  Lang's  Bulletins,  with  an  allusion  to  his  popular  name  of 
Solomon,  figure  in  the  education  of  Fanny's  father,  in  Halleck's  poem 
Fanny.    Then  in  Pearl  street 

"  first  he  met 
The  Editor  of  the  New  York  Gazette, 

•The  sapienf  Mr.  Lang.    The  world  of  him 
Knows  much,  yet  not  one-half  so  much  as  he 

Knows  of  the  world.    Up  to  its  very  brim 
The  goblet  of  his  mind  is  sparkling  free 

With  lore  and  learning.    Had  proud  Sheba's  queen, 

In  all  her  bloom  and  beauty,  but  have  seen 

••This  modern  Solomon,  the  Israelite, 

Earth's  monarch  as  he  was,  had  never  won  her. 

lie  would  have  hanged  himself  for  very  spite, 

And  she,  blessed  woman,  might  have  had  the  honor 

Of  some  neat  paragraphs  —  worth  all  the  lays 

That  Judah's  minstrel  warbled  in  her  praise. 

"Her  star  arose  too  soon;  but  that  which  swayed 

Tlf  ascendant  at  our  merchant's  natal  hour 
Was  bright  with  better  destiny  —  its  aid 

Led  him  to  pluck,  within  the  classic  bower 
Of  bulletins,  the  blossoms  of  true  knowledge; 
And  Lang  supplied  the  loss  of  school  and  college." 


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118.  The  office  of  the  Xew  Turk  Gazette  was  in  Hanover  square, 
between  Hanover  and  Pearl  streets.  The  bust  of  Franklin  which 
formerly  surmounted  the  roof  of  the  building,  is  now  in  possession  of 
the  New  York  Historical  Society. 

69.  In  the  year  1814.  a  writer  appeared  in  a  New  York  paper 
assuming  the  name  of  Abimelech  Coody,  a  mechanic  of  that  place. 
He  was  a  Federalist,  and  addressed  himself  principally  to  the  party  to 
which  he  belonged.  He  endeavored  to  show  the  impropriety  of  oppos- 
ing the  war,  and  urged  them  to  come  forward  manfully  in  defence  of 
their  country.  The  writer  was  soon  ascertained  to  be  Mr.  Gulian  C. 
Yerplanck.  Abimelech  Coody  was  replied  to  by  a  writer,  over  the 
signature  of  A  Traveller  with  great  point  and  severity,  who  was  said 
to  be  De  Witt  Clinton,  who  said  that  "he  [Coody  alias  Yerplanck,] 
has  become  the  head  of  a  sect  called  the  Coodies,  of  hybrid  nature, 
composed  of  the  combined  spawn  of  Federalism  and  Jacobinism,  with- 
out any  definite  character:  neither  fish  nor  flesh,  nor  bird  nor  beast, 
but  a  nondescript  made  up  of 

'All  monstrous,  all  prodigous  things.'" 
The  result  of  the  next  election  in  April,  1815,  proved  that  they  made 
no  impression  on  the  Federal  party  in  New  York,  for  from  being  Demo- 
cratic in  1814,  the  city  changed  to  Federalism  in  181"). — Hammond. 

7I>.  There  was  an  order  of  the  Tammany  Society,  who  wore  in  their 
hats  as  an  insignia,  on  certain  occasions,  a  portion  of  the  tail  of  a  deer. 
They  were  a  leading  order,  and  from  this  circumstance,  the  friends  of 
Mr.  Clinton  gave  those  who  adopted  the  views  of  the  members  of  the 
Tammany  Society  in  relation  to  him,  the  name  of  Hucktails  ;  which 
name  was  eventually  applied  to  their  friends  and  supporters  in  the 
country.  Hence,  the  party  opposed  to  the  administration  of  Mr.  Clin- 
ton was,  for  a  long  time,  called  the  Bucklail  Party. — Hammond. 

71.  Joan  Wksley  Jauvis  was  for  many  years  the  most  eminent 
portrait  painter  in  New  York.  He  was  born  in  England,  and  came  to 
this  country  when  quite  a  child.  He  studied  engraving  under  Edwin, 
and  commenced  painting  in  18<l(>,  and  soon  reached  the  head  of  the 
profession.  Two  of  his  full-lengths.  Gen.  Brown  and  Com.  Bain- 
hridge,  arc  now  in  the  City  Hall.  He  was  an  inimitable  story-teller, 
but  his  irregular  habits  of  living  caused  a  gradual  decay  of  his  powers 
as  a  painter.  He  died  in  this  city  on  the  12th  January,  1841.  —  Arts 
of  DeiiffH, 


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NOTES. 


i  or. 


72.  Dominick  Lynch,  jr.,  a  .Merchant  of  this  city,  to  whose  exertions 
the  American  public  were  indebted  for  the  introduction  of  Italian 
opera  in  this  country.  The  troupe  led  by  Garcia  arrived  in  November 
182">.  and  appeared  at  the  Park  theatre  shortly  afterwards. 

73.  Mr.  T.  Phiiipps  made  two  visits  to  this  country.  The  first  in 
181"),  when  he  made  his  debut  as  Count  TSelino,  in  the  Devil's  Bridge, 
and  at  once  attained  the  highest  summit  of  popular  favor.  He  had  a 
fine  personal  appearance,  his  voice  was  unrivaled  for  sweetness,  and 
he  sung  with  more  feeling  and  expression  than  any  other  vocalist  who 
had  been  heard  here,  Incledon  only  excepted.  Mr.  Coleman,  of  the 
Evening  Post,  praised  him  extravagantly,  and  said  of  his  singing  that 
'•you  could  hear  the  poet  as  well  as  the  musician."  His  second  visit 
was  in  1822  anil  1 8^3.  when  he  made  his  last  appearance  in  June  of  the 
latter  year. — Playgoers'  Journal. 

74.  On  the  '22d  April,  1815,  Mr.  John  Barnes  made  his  first  appear- 
ance in  America  as  Sir  Peter  Teazle  and  Lingo.  He  soon  became  an 
immense  favorite,  and  probably  caused  more  laughter  than  any  come- 
dian we  have  ever  had.  The  comical  phiz  of  Old  Barnes  was  always 
the  signal  for  a  burst  of  merriment,  and  thc3'  who  censured  his  nume- 
rous extravagances  were  obliged  to  laugh  at  his  whimsical  grimaces. 
He  left  the  Park  Theatre  in  18312,  and  undertook  the  management  of 
the  Richmond  Hill  Theatre,  in  Varick  street,  which  proved  an  unfor- 
tunate speculation.  He  occasionally  afterwards  appeared  at  the  Park, 
where  lie  played  for  the  last  time  in  1840.  AVhile  on  a  professional 
visit  to  Nova  Scotia,  in  1841,  he  was  taken  ill,  and  died  on  the  28th 
August,  aged  GO  years.  His  remains  were  brought  to  New  Vork,  and 
interred  in  St.  Mark's  burying  ground. — Playgoers'  Journal. 

75.  The  poet  is  supposed  to  intend  a  hit  at  Mr.  Duff,  one  of  the 
Boston  managers,  who.  with  about  as  much  pretensions  to  it  as  the  actor 
here  named,  actually  went  all  the  way  to  Philadelphia,  a  few  weeks 
since,  to  personate  Count  Belino  ;  but  having,  by  the  assistance  of 
numerous  orders,  murdered  it  for  two  nights,  poor  Wood  flinched  from 
any  farther  experiment.  They  manage  these  things  better  in  Boston. 
Here  they  have  an  ingenious  contrivance  by  which  they  suit  the  play 
to  the  man,  whenever  the  man  is  not  suited  to  the  play  :  thus  on  a  late 
occasion,  in  order  to  enable  a  modest  young  Irishman,  by  the  name 
of  Kecne,  to  sustain  the  character  of  Belino,  they  cut  the  Devil's 
Bridge  down  to  a  farce. — Ed.  Eve.  Post. 

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76.  Mr.  BbeEHAN,  one  of  the  owners  of  the  Park  Theatre. 

77.  The  Franklin  Hank  occupied  the  building  in  Franklin  square, 
on  the  corner  of  Cherry  street,  which  was  built  by  Walter  Franklin, 
and  occupied  by  Gen.  Washington  during  the  first  year  of  his  pre- 
sidency. Alter  the  failure  of  the  bank,  the  building  was  altered  and 
Messrs.  Firth  &  Hall  occupied  it  as  a  music  store  until  it  was  re- 
moved in  18."»0  to  make  room  for  the  New  Bowery  extension. 

78.  The  Surgeon's  Hall  was  in  Barclay  street,  at  Nos.  it  and  11, 
near  Broadway,  and  was  pulled  down  itx  18">.">. 

I'.K  Governor  ToMPEIHS'a  residence  was  on  Staten  Island  between 
the  Quarantine  and  New  Brighton,  directly  fronting  this  city. 

80.  The  North  Dutch  Church,  the  only  one  in  Albany  which  could 
then  boast  of  two  steeples. 

81.  The  Tammany  Society  or  Columbian  Order,  was  formed  by 
William  Mooncy,  an  upholsterer,  residing  in  New  York  during  the 
administration  of  President  Washington.  It  takes  its  name  from  the 
celebrated  Indian  chief,  Tammany,  whose  attachment  to  liberty  was 
greater  than  his  love  of  life.  It  has  a  Grand  Sachem,  and  thirteen 
Sachems,  in  imitation  of  the  President  and  Governors  of  the  States,  and 
a  Grand  Council,  of  which  the  Sachems  are  members.  Tammany  was, 
at  first,  so  popular,  that  most  persons  of  merit  became  members:  and 
so  numerous  were  they  that  its  anniversary  (12th  of  May)  was  regard- 
ed as  a  holiday.  At  that  time,  there  were  no  party  politics  mixed  up 
in  its  proceedings.  But  when  President  Washington  rebuked  "self- 
created  societies,"'  from  an  apprehension  that  their  ultimate  tendency 
would  be  hostile  to  the  public  tranquility,  the  members  of  Tammany, 
supposing  their  institution  to  be  included  in  the  reproof,  nearly  all  left 
it.  The  founder  (Grand  Sachem  Mooncy)  and  a  few  others  continued 
steadfast,  and  from  this  time  it  became  a  political  institution,  and  took 
ground  with  Jefferson.  It  continued  to  increase  in  members,  and  made 
a  great  rally  about  1812  in  support  of  President  Madison's  administra- 
tion, and  to  secure  his  reflection  in  that  year.  The  society  has  been 
continued  to  the  present  time,  solely  as  a  political  organization. — 
llnmmond. 


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83.  Benjamin  B  ulky,  a  Merchant  of  this  city,  of  the  firm  of  Bailey 
&  Bogart,  an  active  politician,  and  for  several  years,  Chairman  of  the 
Democratic  General  Committee  ai  Tammany  Sail. 

84.  Chari.es  Christian,  a  Justice  of  the  Peace. 

85.  Joseph  W.  Bracket,  a  Lawyer  of  this  city. 

86.  Col.  Everardus  Warner,  a  Justice  of  the  Police. 

87.  Gen.  Jonas  Mapes,  a  very  worthy  citizen,  who  held  a  commis- 
sion as  Major  General  of  the  Militia  in  this  district,  and  also  filled 
several  offices  of  trust  and  honor  in  this  fit}'. 

88.  The  Tammany  Society  had  for  several  years  but  very  indiffer- 
ent quarters  at  Martling's  Long  Room,  on  the  corner  of  Nassau  and 
Spruce  streets,  where  the  Tract  House  now  stands.  In  the  year  1809, 
they  determined  to  provide  better  accommodations,  and  passed  a 

Law  "  for  the  "  Building  of  a  Wigwam,"  of  which  the  following  is 
the  preamble  :  "  Whereas,  several  members  of  Tammany  Society,  or 
Columbian  Order,  have  voluntary  offered  to  subscribe  moneys  for  the 
purchase  of  ground  and  the  erection  of  a  Wigwam  for  the  use  of  this 
institution,  and  the  general  accommodation  of  Republicans,"  &c,  &c. 
A  committee  of  thirteen,  corresponding  with  the  number  of  the  ori- 
ginal states,  was  appointed  to  carry  the  law  into  effect.  The  sole 
survivor  of  this  committee  is  Jacob  Barker,  now  of  New  Orleans.  The 
committee  purchased  a  site  on  the  corner  of  Chatham  and  Frankfort 
Streets,  ami  on  the  13th  May.  1811,  the  22d  anniversary  of  the  Society, 
the  corner  stone  was  laid  with  great  ceremony  by  the  Grand  Sachem, 
Clarkson  Crolius,  and  an  oration  was  delivered  by  Alpheus  Sherman. 
The  building  was  finished  in  the  following  year,  and  has  continued  to 
the  present  time  to  be  the  rallying  point  of  the  Democracy. 

80.  Doctor  Samuel  L.  Mitchill  was  appointed  Surgeon  General  of 
the  State  of  New  York  by  Governor  Clinton,  being  tin'  firsl  person 
who  held  that  office.  His  report  tills  eight  folio  pages  of  the  Senate 
journal. 

90.    Mr.  Coleman  altered  the  first  line  of  this  poem  to — 
"Ah  !  Julia!  no  more  at  each  party  and  ball," 
as  he  considered  the  name  of  Chloe  too  antiquated. 


NOTES. 


91.  On  the  south-cast  corner  of  William  and  Pine  streets  (origi- 
nally called  Smith  and  King  streets)  stood  the  family  mansion  of  the 
I'hilijises.  It  was  during  the  latter  part  of  the  last  century  kept  as  a 
lodging  house  by  a  Mrs.  Mercer;  then  it  passed  into  the  hands  of  a 
Mr.  King,  and  finally  into  the  possession  of  his  son-in-law,  William 
Nihlo,  under  whose  charge  it  became  famous  as  the  Hank  Coffee  House. 
Mr.  Nihlo  entered  the  service  of  Mr.  King  in  an  humble  capacity,  but 
by  his  attention  to  the  interest  of  his  employer,  he  was  gradually  ad- 
vanced in  position  :  in  18P.t  he  married  the  daughter  of  Mr.  King,  and 
became  proprietor  of  the  establishment.  He  continued  there  until  he 
took  charge  of  the  present  Niblo's  Garden,  with  which  he  is  still  con- 
nectcd. 

'.12.  Few  actresses  have  been  so  deserving,  fewer  still  have  been  so 
fortunate,  as  Mrs.  Barnes,  who  made  her  first  appearance  at  the  Park 
Theatre,  on  the  17th  April,  181").  During  a  theatrical  career  of  twenty- 
five  years,  nothing  occurred  to  detract  in  the  slightest  degree  from  the 
kindly  feelings  entertained  for  her.  on  her  first  appearance.  In  person, 
Mrs.  Parties  was  finely  formed,  and  her  features,  though  small,  were 
eminently  beautiful,  and  at  her  perfect  command  in  portraying  every 
shade  of  passion.  She  excelled  principally  in  the  youthful  heroines 
of  tragedy,  though  she  was  almost  equally  successful  in  comedy,  melo- 
drama and  pantomime.  Mrs.  Barnes  was  respected  and  admired  in 
private  life,  and  after  her  husband's  death,  took  a  formal  farewell 
of  the  stage  November  2d,  1841.  She  has  appeared  a  few  limes  since 
for  the  benefit  of  her  daughter.  Miss  Charlotte  Barnes;  the  last  occa- 
sion having  been  in  Philadelphia,  as  Lady  Randolph,  on  the 26th  July, 
18.">1,  which  character  she  sustained  with  almost  undiminished  excel- 
len  cc.  —  I'lin/i/ocrs  Journal. 

93.  The  name  of  Stkimikx  I'kice,  so  well  known  in  theatrical 
annals,  occurs  in  connection  with  the  management  of  the  Park  Theatre 
for  the  first  time  in  the  year  180S.  he  having  then  purchased  an  interest 
of  Mr.  Cooper.  His  interest  continued  for  thirty-two  years,  a  portion 
of  the  time  being  with  Mr.  Simpson.  Mr.  Price  was  a  man  of  groal 
perseverance  and  energy  of  character,  strict  and  severe,  though 
honorable  in  his  dealings,  and  displayed  great  taste  and  judgment  in 
all  his  dramatic  engagements.  A  long  residence  abroad,  during  which 
he  was  for  a  time  manager  of  Drury  l.ane  Theatre  in  London,  gave  him 
great  facilities  for  the  engagement  of  distinguished  talent,  and  through 
him  many  of  the  most  eminent  British  artists  were  introduced  to  the 


NOTES. 


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American  public.  During  the  Inst  years  of  Mr.  Price's  management, 
owing  to  the  powerful  rivalry  of  Mr.  Wallack  at  the  National  Theatre 
in  Leonard  street,  the  Park  Theatre  declined  greatly  in  popularity, 
and  Mr.  Price  being  absent  could  not  understand  the  necessity  of  new 
outlays,  which  were  necessary  to  keep  pace  with  its  formidable  com- 
petitor. He  returned  to  New  Fork  to  superintend  its  management  in 
person,  but  was  soon  after  seized  u  il  h  a,  sickness,  which  terminated 
his  life  on  the  20th  January,  1840. — Playgoers  Journal. 

04.  However  adroitly  the  object  of  these  two  lines  may  appear  lo  lie1 
concealed,  their  application  can  not  be  mistaken.  AVe  freely  subscribe 
to  the  merits  of  Mrs.  Barnes  without  feeling  in  any  manner  disposed 
to  admit  that  these  merits  deteriorate  from  Mrs.  Hartley's.  They  are 
distinct  in  character  and  effort,  and  have  no  relative  connection.  —  Kil. 
Nat.  Advocate. 

04.  Simon  Thomas,  the  Caterer-General,  indispensible  on  all  such 
occasions. 

00.    Mrs.  Poi'I'leton,  a  Confectioner  at  206  Broadway. 

07.  Christie  kept  the  principal  china  and  glass  store  in  this  city, 
in  Maiden  lane. 

98.  Alluding  to  a  certain  individual,  whom  it  was  all  the  fashion 
to  have  at  all  great  parties. — Ed.  Eve.  Post. 

00.  Wm,  Cobbett,  the  well  known  political  and  infidel  writer, 
having  fled  to  England  after  the  destruction  of  his  press  at  Philadel- 
phia by  a  mob  about  1795,  returned  in  1818,  settled  at  New  York  and 
opened  a  seed  shop,  where  he  sold  ruta  baga  at  a  dollar  per  pound,  and 
black  pigs  for  ten  dollars  each.  For  a  long  space  of  time,  you  could 
hear  nothing  in  Wall  or  Exchange  streets  but  Cobbett  and  his  black 
pigs  —  Cobbett  and  his  ruta  baga.  *  *  *  Before  twelve  months 
he  closed  the  concern,  and  again  sailed  tor  England.  Naked  he  came 
into  America,  and  naked  he  returned  from  thence:  his  whole  goods 
and  chattels  (a  few  minor  articles  excepted),  consisting  only  of  ruta 
baga  and  smoked  hams  from  the  hind  quarters  of  his  black  pigs;  he 
shipped  one  ease,  however,  which  by  some  estimation  was  beyond  all 
price,  viz:  a  rough  Albany  deal  board,  formed  into  a  square  box,  anil 
in  this  box  was  deposited  the  profound  skull  and  dry  bones  of  the 
venerated  Thomas  Paine,  author  of  Common  Sense,  Sic.    Out  of  these 


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NOTES. 


bones  Cobbett  meant  to  have  made  political  capital,  but  they  were 
seized  by  the  custom  house  at  London  for  duty,  and  sank  (if  report 
speaks  true)  in  the  deep  green  sea. — Grant  Thorlmrn. 

A  correspondent  in  Philadelphia  has  furnished  us  several  interesting 
facts  relative  to  Cobbett,  during  and  subsequent  to  his  residence  in 
that  city.  His  establishment  there  was  on  North  Second  street  between 
Market  and  Arch  streets.  A  difficulty  with  Governor  McKean  occa- 
sioned a  suit,  against  the  result  of  which  he  bitterly  complained,  and 
while  living  on  Long  Island,  endeavored  to  obtain  some  legislative 
action  at  Harrisburgh  in  his  behalf. 

In  a  letter  dated  Hyde  Park  (Long  Island).  September  1st.  1S17. 
after  a  good  deal  on  farming  matters,  buckwheat,  carrots,  cabbages,  &e., 
&c,  "  all  the  finest  that  can  be  imagined  —  some  of  my  turnips  already 
weigh  about  five  pounds,"  and  after  referring  to  the  treatment  received 
from  the  government  in  England,  he  goes  on  to  say:  "  In  November,  1 
shall  go  on  to  Philadelphia,  and  then  I  shall  tackle  the  gentry  there  on 
account  of  the  proceedings  of  McKean,  his,/Wyr.«  ami  his  juries.    I  am 

sorry  that  he  and  Dallas  ate  dead:  for  by  .  1  will  \u\\o  justice  ;  1 

will  have  the  judgment  reversed  by  act  of  the  assembly,  or  the  whole 
world  shall  hear  of  their  injustice  and  tyranny  —  they  will  be  cursedly 
puzzled  with  me."  In  a  letter  dated  Harrisbugh,  February  10th,  181S. 
he  says:  "A  report  has  been  made  and  printed  ;  it  is  as  favorable  as  it 
possibly  can  be:  it  will  come  on  in  the  Senate  on  Saturday." 

He  was  at  this  time  in  company  with  Matthew  Carey,  between  whom 
and  himself  there  had  been  much  bitterness  in  17!tS,  when  Carey  wrote 
the  Plumb  Pudding  far  Peter  Porcupine.  Our  correspondent  adds: 
'•  While  Cobbett  was  at  Long  Island  in  1817,  1818.  18H>.  he  was  experi- 
menting in  almost  all  branches  of  farming  and  cattle  raising.  He  was 
also  writing  and  publishing  a  grammar  and  other  books,  and  supplying 
matter  for  his  Register,  which  was  continued  in  London.  He  raised 
various  seed-,  which  were  sent  to  agents  in  various  parts  of  the  I'nited 
States,  put  up  in  packages  seated.  He  induced  Mr.  Morgan,  an  admir- 
ing friend,  to  be  the  agent  for  Philadelphia.  He  advertised  extensively. 
I  remember  a  communication  in  one  of  the  Philadelphia  newspapers, 
the  writer  of  which  refers  to  a  letter  of  Cobbett's  to  Sir  Francis  ISur- 
dett.  in  relation  to  the  money  which  BurdeM  had  lent  to  him.  and  asks, 
who  after  reading  that  letter  would  have  so  much  confidence  in  Cob- 
bett's honor  or  honesty  as  to  pay  him  five  dollars  for  a  seated  package 
of  seeds  or  any  thing  else.  It  is  probable  that  the  allusion  in  the  poem 
is  to  this  letter.  My  father-in-law.  Mr.  William  Voting,  was  an  exten- 
sive bookseller  while    Cobbett   was  in    Philadelphia.      It  appears 


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Cobbett  was  in  his  debt,  and  had  to  be  urged  for  payment  :  I  find  anion"; 
Mr.  Voting's,  papers  a  note  from  Cobbctt,  of  which  this  is  a  copy: 

'Good  master  Voting 

1  can  not  setul  the  whole  amount, 

With  christian  patience  watch  and  wait, 
Take  fifty  dollars  on  account. 

And  give  the  bearer  a  receipt. 

Wm.  Cobbett. 

'P.  S. — Though  I  know  it  is  very  difficult  to  rhyme  a  Presbyterian 
out  of  his  money,  yet  when  in  the  measure  of  Watts's  Psalms  and  Hymns, 
it  ought  to  have  some  weight.  I  will  discharge  the  rest  of  your  bill 
as  soon  as  possible,  which  I  hope  will  be  before  Saturday  night. 

'  Tuesdaj-,  February  5th,  1798.' 

"I  observe  in  the  extract  which  you  kindly  sent  to  me  references  to 
Thorburn,  Loekhart's  cane,  &C,  the  occasion  for  which  I  am  unac- 
quainted with  ;  probably  the  seed  business  brought  him  in  collision 
with  the  eccentric  Thorburn,  who,  it  is  likely,  returned  him  quid  pro 
quo." 

100.  George  Barrington  was  the  well  known,  or  rather  widely 
known,  light-fingered  gentleman  to  whom  is  ascribed  the  witty  couplet : 

"  True  patriots  we!  For  be  it  understood, 

We  left  our  country  for  our  country's  good." — Allibonc. 

101.  In  a  letter  from  William  Cobbett  to  Sir  Francis  Burdett,  20th 
June,  1817,  enclosing  one  to  Mr.  Tripper,  North  Hempstead,  Long 
Island,  same  date,  he  says:  '•!  beg  you  to  have  the  goodness  to  read, 
and  to  consider  the  contents  of  it  (as  far  as  they  relate  to  the  liquida- 
tion of  my  debts  generally),  as  addressed  to  yourself. 

"  If  there  be  any  man  who  can  pretend  for  one  moment,  that  mine  is 
an  ordinary  case,  and,  that  not  having  enough  to  pay  every  body,  I 
ought  to  be  regarded  as  an  insolvent  debtor,  in  the  usual  acceptance  of 
the  words  ;  if  there  be  any  man,  who  wholly  absorbed  in  his  attachment 
to  his  own  immediate  interests,  is  ready  to  cast  blame  on  a  debtor, 
who  has  had  his  means  of  paying  cut  off  by  an  operation  as  decisive 
as  that  of  an  earthquake,  which  should  sink  into  eternal  nothing,  his 
lands,  his  houses  and  his  goods  —  if  there  be  any  man  who,  if  he 
had  been  a  creditor  of  Job,  would  have  insisted  that  that  celebrated 
object  nf  a  malignant  devil's  wrath,  which  had  swept  away  his  herds, 
his  Hocks,  his  sons  and  daughters,  was  an  insolvent  debtor  and  a 


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NOTES. 


bankrupt,  and  ought  to  have  been  considered  such,  and  as  such  pro- 
vided against:  if  there  be  any  such  a  man  as  this  to  whom  I  owe  any 
thing,  to  such  a  man,  I  first  say  that  I  despise  him  from  the  bottom  of 
my  soul :  and  then  I  say,  that  if  lie  dare  meet  me  before  this  world  in 
open  and  written  charge.  I  pledge  myself  to  cover  him  with  as  much 
shame  and  infamy  as  the  world  can  be  brought  to  shower  upon  so 
contemptible  a  being. 

 "  When  the  society  is  too  weak  or  unwilling  to  defend  the 

property,  whether  mental  or  of  a  more  ordinary  and  vulgar  species, 
and  where  there  is  not  the  will  or  the  power  in  the  society  to  yield 
him  protection,  he  becomes  clearly  absolved  of  all  his  engagements  of 
every  sort  to  that  society,  because  in  every  bargain  of  every  kind,  it 
is  understood  that  both  parties  are  to  continue  to  enjoy  the  protection 
of  the  laws  of  property." 

Sir  Francis  Burdett  replied  on  the  13th  Jan.  1818. 

 "  It  is  not  my  intention  to  enter  into  any  controversy  respecting 

the  honesty  or  dishonesty  of  paying  or  not  paying  debfs  according  to 
the  convenience  of  the  party  owing.  It  seems  that  if  it  should  ever 
suit  your  convenience  and  take  nothing  from  the  comforts  or  enjoy- 
ments of  your  family  (all  this  being  previously  secured),  then  you 
think  yourself  bound  to  pay  your  debts:  if,  on  the  contrary,  that  can 
not  be  effected  without  sacrifice  on  your  part,  in  that  case  your  credi- 
tors have  no  claim.  These  principles,  which  are  laughable  in  theory, 
are  detestable  in  practice.  How  true  is  our  common  law  maxim,  that 
no  man  is  an  upright  judge  in  his  own  cause:  how  truly  and  prettily 
said  by  the  French,  La  nature  se  pipe-,  no  less  truly,  though  more 
grossly  in  English.  Xature's  her  o ten  bau  d." — Ere.  Post,  1*7  April.  181(1. 

102.  Cobiiett*s  seed  store  was  at  63  Fulton  street. 

103.  The  poem.  The  Ameriean  Flag,  was  published  in  the  Ennin;/ 
Post,  with  the  following  caption  by  Mr.  Coleman  :  "Sir  Philip  Sidney 
said,  as  Addison  tells  us.  that  he  never  could  read  the  old  ballad  of 
Chevy  Chase,  without  feeling  his  heart  beat  within  him.  as  at  the  sound 
of  a  trumpet.  The  following  lines,  which  are  to  be  ranked  among  the 
highest  inspirations  of  the  Muse,  will  suggest  similar  associations  in 
the  breast  of  the  gallant  American  officer." 

104.  The  last  four  lines  of  the  Ameriean  Flag  are  by  Halleek,  in 
place  of  the  following  by  Drake,  which  originally  closed  the  poem  : 


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161 


And  fixed  as  yonder  orb  divine, 

That  saw  thy  bannered  blaze  unfurled, 

.Shall  thy  proud  stars  resplendent  shine, 
The  guard  and  glory  of  the  world. 

105.  The  meetings  of  the  Forums  were  held  at  the  City  Hotel,  in 
Broadway,  on  Friday  evenings.  The  price  of  admission  was  two 
shillings. 

10G.  The  prominent  members  of  the  Forums  were  J.  P.  C.  Sampson, 
Orville  L.  Holley,  Thomas  G.  Fessenden,  Hiram  Ketchum,  &c.  The 
Secretary  of  the  old  Forum  was  Rev.  Richard  Varick  Dey,  at  one  time 
Chaplain  to  Congress ;  and  of  the  New  York  Forum  was  Wm.  Paxson 
Hallett,  Esq.,  afterwards  Clerk  of  the  United  States  Court  for  this 
district.  The  valedictory  address  was  delivered  by  Col.  Charles  G. 
Haines. 

107.  James  L.  Bell  was  Sheriff  of  the  County  of  New  York  from 
August  27,  1817,  till  February  13,  1821. 

108.  Dawson's  Livery  Stable,  No.  9  Dey  street. 

109.  A.  T.  Goodrich's  Bookstore,  corner  of  Broadway  and  Cedar 
street. 

110.  Eastbttrn's  Literary  Rooms  on  the  corner  of  WaH  and  Nassau 
streets,  where  the  Custom  House  now  stands. 

111.  Chester  Jennings  came  to  this  city  from  Connecticut,  in 
search  of  employment,  and  engaged  as  a  servant  at  the  City  Hotel, 
then  kept  by  Solomon  Gibson.  He  was  soon  promoted  to  the  charge  of 
the  office  of  the  hotel,  and  when  Mr.  Gibson  left,  in  181G,  he  became  pro- 
prietor. Under  his  management  it  acquired  a  high  reputation,  and 
Mr.  Jennings  retired  with  a  competency.  His  fortune,  which  was  in- 
vested in  the  United  States  Bank  and  other  stocks,  having  been  swept 
away  by  the  revulsion  of  18o7.  he  was  induced  by  Mr.  Astor  to  resume 
the  management  of  the  hotel,  in  connection  with  his  former  assistant 
Mr.  WiUard.  Jennings  and  Willard  soon  regained  their  former  re- 
nown as  hotel  keepers,  and  in  about  five  years,  Mr.  Jennings  repaired 
his  losses,  and  both  he  and  Mr.  Willard  again  retired  to  private  life, 
Mr. "Jennings  returning  to  Connecticut.  During  a  temporary  visit  to 
this  city,  he  was  taken  ill,  and  died  at  the  Astor  House  on  the  2-jth 

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NOTES. 


January,  18o4,  leaving  his  estate  to  bis  sister,  Mrs.  Otis  Munn,  of 
Leyden,  X.  Y.  He  was  much  esteemed  for  Ji is  excellent  qualities 
as  a  man,  and  his  usefulness  as  a  citizen.  The  City  Hotel,  during 
its  existence,  was  noted,  not  only  for  its  excellence  as  a  place  of 
entertainment  for  travellers,  but  for  the  accommodations  it  afforded 
the  citizens  for  various  uses.  Dinners  to  distinguished  men.  meetings 
of  citizens,  concerts,  anniversary  balls  and  masonic  lodges  were  held 
there  for  many  years,  while  under  t lie  auspices  of  Mr.  Jennings,  and 
it  will  long  live  in  the  memories  of  a  large  number  of  the  citizens  of 
Xew  York. 

11.!.  The  death  of  Cato  Ai.kxandkh  was  announced  in  the  news- 
papers of  8th  Feb.,  1858.  For  half  a  century  he  kept  a  house  of  enter- 
tainment "on  the  road,"  about  four  miles  from  the  City  Hall.  Cato's 
was  the  fashionable  out  of  town  resort  for  the  young  men  of  the  day. 
His  suppers  were  proverbial  for  excellence,  and  in  sleighing  times,  it 
was  almost  impossible  to  obtain  accommodation  for  the  crowds  that 
frequented  the  house.  His  property  increased  with  time.  But  the 
fast  young  men,  who  had  assisted  in  making  Cato  rich,  occasionally 
borrowed  money  of  him,  at  first  in  small  sums  and  then  in  larger 
amounts.  In  too  many  instances  these  were  never  returned:  Cato 
gradually  became  crippled  in  means;  his  old  friends  deserted  him, 
while  new  ones  could  not  be  obtained,  or  were  diverted  to  more  attract- 
ive places  of  resort  which  sprung  up  in  the  suburbs  of  the  city.  His 
house  was  finally  sold,  and  Cato  made  a  last  effort  to  open  an  oyster 
saloon  in  Broadway  near  Prince  street.  But  he  had  grown  old  and 
infirm,  and  after  a  year's  trial  was  obliged  to  yield:  lie  was  no  longer 
seen  in  that  neighborhood,  and  nothing  more  was  heard  of  him  until 
his  death  was  announced  as  above.  He  died  in  the  77th  year  of  his 
age. 

U.S.  The  Baron  Vox  Hoffman,  who  discharged  two  pistols  in 
succession  at  his  own  body,  and  missed  both  times:  evidently  owing 
to  a  want  of  practice. — Ed.  Eve.  Posf. 

This  Baron  Yon  Hoffman  appears  to  have  been  all  the  fashion  at 
this  time.  He  proved  to  be  an  arrant  imposter,  and  left  this  city,  but 
turned  up  afterwards  in  Dublin,  as  the  following  from  t lie  Evtning  Post 
of  12th  .June  182:1.  shows,  viz:  "Baron  Yon  Hoffman  of  Sironv.  who 
used  to  serenade  our  ladies  with  the  Tyrolese  air,  so  merrily,,  under 
their  windows  in  Broadway,  a  year  or  two  ago.  and  one  day  took 
French  leave  of  them  all,  now  shows  away  as  one  of  the  "nobility 
and  persona  of  distinction  in  Dublin-'' 


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163 


114.  Two  lamps  arc  always  placed  before  the  door  of  the  house  oc- 
cupied by  the  Mayor. 

115.  Allusion  is  made  in  this  poem,  to  the  names  applied  to  the 
twenty-eight  townships  in  the  Military  Tract  of  Central  and  Western 
New  York.  The  soubriquet  of  "  Godfather  of  the  christened  west," 
was  now  first  applied  to  General  De  Witt,  and  he  has  since  been  spoken 
of  as  entitled  to  that  honor,  which,  such  as  it  is,  is  believed  to  belong 
to  Robert  Harper,  then  Deputy  Secretary  of  State.  It  appears  that 
the  Surveyor  General  had  no  share  in  naming  the  townships,  for  in 
a  communication  from  him  to  one  of  the  New  York  papers,  he  says: 
•'  The  editor  has  done  the  Surveyor  General  too  much  honor  by  retain- 
ing for  him  the  naming  of  the  townships  in  the  Military  Tract,  for  a 
display  of  his  knowledge.  The  names  were  given  by  formal  resolution 
of  the  Commissioners  of  the  Land  Office.  The  Board,  consisting  of  the 
Governor,  the  Secretary  of  State,  the  Treasurer,  t he  Auditor  and  the 
Attorney  General,  held  its  meetings  in  the  city  of  New  York.  The 
Surveyor-General  had  his  office  established  by  law  in  the  city  of  Albany, 
and  knew  nothing  of  these  obnoxious  names  till  theg  were  officially  com- 
municated to  him,  nor  had  he  even  then,  any  agency  in  suggesting  them." 
General  De  Witt  died  in  1834. — Hist.  Magazine,  Vol.  iii,  No.  3. 

As  illustrative  of  the  text,  we  here  subjoin  a  list  of  the  townships 
whose  names  were  attributed  to  the  Surveyor-General,  but  as  we  have 
seen  without  justice.  They  were,  Lysauder,  Hannibal,  Cato,  Brutus, 
CamiUus,  Cicero,  Manlius,  Aurelius,  Marcellus,  Ponipey,  Romulus, 
Scipio,  Sempronius,  Tully,  Fabius,  Ovid,  Milton,  Locke,  Homer,  Solon, 
Hector,  Ulysses,  Dryden,  Virgil,  Cincinnatus,  Junius,  Galen  and  Ster- 
ling. The  Legislature  of  New  York  in  183o,  applied  the  final  touch, 
suggested  in  the  last  stanza,  by  naming  a  new  town  in  Onondaga  county, 
De  Witt. 

116.  An  expression  of  Mr.  Speaker  German,  in  allusion  to  the 
assessment  of  property  on  the  borders  of  the  canal. — Eve.  Post. 

117.  Cato,  the  Censor,  passed  severe  sumptuary  laws,  restraining 
the  extravagant  dress  of  the  Roman  dandies,  and  limiting  the  amount 
of  property  which  one  man  might  possess,  to  the  sore  annoyance  of 
the  bankers  (or  usurers)  of  Rome.  He  was  also  an  encourager  of 
home  manufactures. — Eve.  Post. 


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NOTES. 


118.  Johx  Jqsepb  Holland,  arrived  in  this  country  in  1796,  hav- 
ing been  engaged  in  England  by  Wignell,  as  a  scene  painter  for  the 
Philadelphia  Theatre.  He  was  afterwards  employed  to  remodel  the 
Park  Theatre  by  Mr.  Cooper,  who  had  become  the  lessee.  He  was  a 
man  of  taste  in  the  arts,  and  his  landscapes  in  water  colors  had  great 
truth  and  force. — -Dunlap's  Arts  of  Design. 

110.  AMBROSE  Spenceb,  a  native  of  Salisbury,  Connecticut,  un- 
admitted to  the  Bar  in  1788.  He  served  in  both  branches  of  the  State 
Legislature,  and  in  1802  was  appointed  Attorney  General  of  the  State. 
In  1810,  he  was  appointed  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court,  which 
office  he  held  until  1823,  when  he  resumed  the  practice  of  his  profession, 
but  left  it  after  a  few  years,  and  retired  to  private  life.  He  died  13th 
March,  1848,  in  the  eighty-third  year  of  his  age.  Mr.  Spencer  was 
vehement  in  speech,  and  energetic  in  manner,  but  kind  and  approachable 
to  all. — Street's  Council  of  Revision. 

120.  llichard  the  Third.—  Eve.  Post. 

121.  John  Woodwouth  had  then  recently  been  appointed  one  of 
the  Puisne  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court. 

122.  James  Tallmadge.  "  Veracity  of  history  compels  me  to  state 
thai  in  no  part  of  New  York,  were  political  bargains  more  common 
than  among  some  of  the  politicians  of  Dutchess  county,  and  that  Mr. 
Livingston  (Peter  It.),  and  Mr.  Tallmadge  (James)  were  prominent 
party  leaders  in  that  county." — Hammond. 

123.  Messrs.  STEPHEN  Bates,  George  Rosf.soraxtz  and  William 
Koss.  The  fourth  member  of  the  Council  of  Appointment  in  thai 
year  (1819)  was  Stephen  Paum  m,  but  he  appears  nol  to  have  been 
acting  at  this  time. 

124.  A  tax  of  one  dollar  was  imposed  by  a  law  of  1817.  upon  every 
passenger  who  traveled  over  one  hundred  miles  by  steam  boat  upon 
the  Hudson,  and  of  half  this  sum  for  every  passage  over  thirty'  and 
under  one  hundred  miles.  This  revenue,  with  that  derived  from  stale 
lotteries  and  other  sources,  was  applicable  to  the  construction  of  canals, 
and  in  seventeen  \  ears  amounted  to  §73,500.00.  The  tax  was  suspended 
in  1820,  and  finally  ended  in  1823. 


NOTES. 


125.  Roger  Skin.nkk.  a  Senator  from  Sandy  Hill,  Washington  Co., 
in  the  eastern  district,  was  a  man  pleasing  in  his  address;  his  talents 
were  rather  of  the  persuasive  than  the  solid  kind,  and.  as  a  companion, 
he  was  quite  agreeable,  lie  was  fond  of  political  management,  and 
rather  reckless  as  to  the  means  he  employed  to  accomplish  his  ends. 
He  was  said  to  be  bitter  in  his  feelings  as  a  partizan.  He  was,  un- 
doubtedly, very  much  so  against  Gov  Clinton. — Hammond. 

126.  Peter  K.  Livingston,  from  Dutchess  county,  was  a  man  of 
fine  fancy  and  great  declamatory  powers.  Few  men  could  address  a 
popular  assembly  with  more  effect  than  he.  His  usefulness  as  a 
legislator  was  impaired  by  a  lack  of  industry  and  laborious  attention 
to  the  details  of  business.  He  filled  many  prominent  stations  under 
the  state  and  national  governments,  and  had  been  a  Member  of  Con- 
gress, of  the  State  Senate,  and  of  the  Assembly.  He  died  at  Rhinebeck 
on  the  19th  January,  1847,  aged  81  years. — Hammond  <$•  Am.  Almanac. 

127.  Waltf.ii  Bowse  was  this  year  (1819)  elected  a  member  of  the 
State  Senate  from  the  city  of  New  York. 

128.  Messrs.  Christian  and  Warner  were  Justices  of  the  Peace  in 
i  Ins  city. 

129.  George  Buckmaster,  a  perfect  Falstaff  in  proportion,  was 
Alderman  of  the  seventh  ward. 

130.  Pierre  C.  Van  Wyck,  an  eminent  Lawyer  and  long  Recorder  of 
this  city.  He  was  a  fierce  Clintonian,  always  writing  squibs,  and 
contributed  with  Clinton  to  theiVew  York  Columbian,  the  papers  signed 
A  Martling  Man.    The  Columbian  was  edited  by  Charles  Holt. 

131.  Obadiah  German  of  Chenango  county,  Speaker  of  Assembly. 

132.  Hugh  Maxwell,  formerly  District  Attorney  of  New  York,  and 
Collector  of  the  Port  —  at  present  residing  in  Rockland  county. 

Barent  Gardenier,  was  born  in  the  village  of  Kinderhook,  N.  V., 
and  was  the  oldest  son  of  Richard  Gardenier,  a  distinguished  lawyer 
of  that  place.  After  being  admitted  to  the  bar,  Barent  moved  to 
Ulster  county,  where  he  soon  rose  to  eminence.  He  was  elected  to 
represent  that  county  in  the  10th  Congress.  In  this  new  sphere  of 
action,  he  at  once  took  a  distinguished  rank  and  was  one  of  the  Fede- 


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NOTES. 


ral  leaders  of  the  bouse.  In  the  year  1808,  in  consequence  of  severe 
language  used  by  liim  in  debate,  he  was  assailed  with  a  torrent  of 
personal  abuse  which  provoked  a  challenge  from  him  and  a  duel,  in 
which  he  was  shot  through  the  body  by  George  W.  Campbell,  a  mem- 
ber from  Tennessee,  and  barely  escaped  with  his  life.  At  the  expira- 
tion of  his  congressional  term  he  moved  to  the  city  of  New  York, 
where  he  practiced  law  for  a  few  years.  He  afterwards  edited  the 
ExiMiiinir,  a  periodical  published  in  this  city,  by  his  cousin,  the  late 
Abraham  Vosburgh,  Esq.  Mr.  (iardenier  possessed  genius  of  the 
highest  order.  He  was  remarkable  for  his  fascinating  address,  his 
soul-stirring  eloquence,  his  brilliant  wit  and  his  caustic  sarcasm.  In 
the  two  latter  qualities  he  was  but  little  if  any  wise  inferior  to  the 
celebrated  John  Randolph,  by  whom  he  was  pronounced  the  greatest 
man  tiiat  ever  stood  upon  the  floor  of  Congress.  Mr.  (iardenier  was 
a  ready  and  powerful  debater,  and  a  bob!,  frank  and  fearless  man. 
He  died  in  the  city  of  New  York  about  thirty  years  ago. 

133.  Gakbet  Gti.uKRT,  Register  of  the  city  and  county  of  New  York. 

134.  Prter  H.  Wendover,  was  a  native  of  this  city  and  was  elected 
lo  the  State  Assembly  in  1804,  and  to  the  United  Stales  Congress  in 
1815,  in  which  body  he  served  three  terms.  During  the  whole  time  of 
Mr.  Wendover  in  Congress,  he  made  but  one  speech,  which  was  upon 
the  altering  of  the  American  flag.  The  flag  consisted  originally  of 
thirteen  stripes  and  thirteen  stars,  to  which,  on  the  addition  of  a  state 
to  the  Union,  another  stripe,  and  another  star  were  added.  Mr.  Wen- 
dover urged  the  appointment  of  a  committee  "to  inquire  into  the  ex- 
pediency of  altering  the  flag  of  the  United  States."  The  committee 
was  appointed  and  reported  on  the  2d  January,  1817,  but  the  uacl  to 
establish  the  Flag  of  the  United  States,'"  did  not  pass  until  the  following 
year,  li  was  as  follows:  "lie  it  enacted,  &c.  That  from  and  after 
the  fourth  day  of  July  next,  the  flag  of  the  United  States  be  thirteen 
horizontal  stripes,  alternate  red  and  white:  that  the  Union  be  twenty 
Stars,  white  in  a  blue  lield. 

••  Sec'.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  that  on  the  admission  id'  every 
new  State  into  the  Union,  one  star  shall  be  added  to  the  Union  of  the 
flag  :  and  that  each  addition  shall  take  effect  on  the  fourth  day  of  July 
then  next  succeeding  such  admission.     Approved  April  4.  181S.' 

Mr.  Wendover  was  afterwards  Sheriff'  id'  this  city. 

I :'..">.     Doctor  Last's  examination.  —  AVr.  Post. 


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NOTES. 


136.  In  the  stanzas  that  follow,  the  literary  reader  of  taste  will 
recognize  the  plaintive  tenderness  of  the  author  of  I, alia  Rookh. — 
Ed.  Eve.  rost. 

137.  The  Council  of  Appointment  was  created  in  the  following  man- 
ner :  "The  State  for  the  purpose  of  electing  Senators,  was  divided 
into  four  great  districts,  the  southern,  middle,  eastern  and  western. 
Out  of  each  district,  once  in  every  year,  the  Assefnbly  were  required 
openly  to  nominate  and  appoint  one  Senator,  which  Senators  when  thus 
elected,  were,  together  with  the  Governor,  to  form  a  Council  of  Ap- 
pointment. Originally  theGovcrnor  had  the  sole  power  of  originating 
nominations,  hut  in  1801,  the  constitution  was  amended  so  as  to  give 
concurrent  power  of  nomination  to  each  member  of  the  Council.  The 
Governor  was  constituted  President  of  this  Board  "with  the  advice 
and  consent  of  the  Council,  to  appoint  all  officers"  whose  appointments 
were  not  otherwise  provided  for  in  the  constitution.  All  civil  and 
military  officers,  from  the  heads  of  departments,  Chancellors  and 
Judges  of  the  Supreme  Court,  down  to,  and  including  all  Justices  of 
the  Peace  and  Auctioneers,  with  the  exception  of  the  State  Treasurer 
and  a  few  petty  city  and  town  officers,  were  thus,  in  etfect,  appointed 
by  the  Governor. — Hammond. 

The  Council  of  Appointment  had  become  notoriously  a  political 
machine,  and  upon  the  revision  of  the  constitution  in  1821  it  was 
abolished  without  a  dissenting  vote,  either  in  the  committee  or  the  con- 
vention. At  the  time  the  Council  was  discontinued,  8,28Tmilitary  and 
lj.0t)3  civil  officers  held  their  commissions  under  this  authority,  and 
most  of  them  were  liable  to  removal  at  will.  At  an  early  day,  the 
Council,  while  it  disclaimed  the  exercise  of  a  judicial  authority,  felt 
bound  to  entertain  charges  against  persons  holding  office  under  them, 
in  the  presence  of  the  accused,  with  the  view  of  proving  the  truth  or 
error  of  theaccusations;  but  at  a  later  day  their  proceedings  were  sum- 
mary.— Hough's  New  York  Civil  Lis/. 

L38.     A  fashionable  tailor  in  Wall  street. 

139.  Mr.  Bates  was  a  shrewd,  sensible  Yankee.  As  a  county 
politician,  he  possessed  efficiency,  but  he  was  narrow  and  selfish  in  his 
views  and  principles  of  action.  He  was  much  governed  politically, 
by  the  impulses  of  feeling,  and  of  personal  likings  and  dislikings. — 
Hammond. 


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NOTES. 


140.  Mr.  Bosf.xcrantz  was  a  respectable  and  worthy  Senator,  of 
German  descent,  from  Herkimer  county,  who,  with  true  Dutch  obstinacy, 
declared  lie  would  "  never  vote  for  a  liucktail." — Hammond. 

141.  Mr.  William  Boss,  a  democratic  member  from  Orange  county, 
though  honest  and  kind-hearted,  was  a  vain  man.  He  was  warmly 
attached  to  the  republican  party,  but  his  vanity  and  want  of  real 
talent,  rendered  him  rather  a  cause  of  amusement  than  a  terror  to  his 
opponents. — Hammond. 

142.  Tn  the  proceedings  of  the  Council  of  Appointment  of  10th  July 
18111,  appear  the  following,  viz:  "Thomas  .).  Oakley  was  appointed 
Attorney  General  of  the  State  of  New  York,  in  place  of  Mr.  M.  Van 
Huron,  removed."  "Edward  McGaraghan  was  appointed  Justice  of 
the  second  ward  in  place  of  Teunis  Wortman,  removed."'  "Jeremiah 
Drake  was  appointed  Judge  of  the  Marine  Court  in  place  of  John  15. 
Scott,  removed.'' 

143.  This  piece  now  appears  in  Hallcck's  Poetical  Works,  with  the 
title,  Domestic  Happiness.  For  the  newspaper  motto  the  following  is 
substituted : 

"  The  only  bliss 
Of  Paradise  that  has  survived  the  fall." — Cotrper. 

144.  Vaxdf.rvoort  &  Flaximx  kept  a  fashionable  dry  goods  store 
in  Broadway  near  Bark  Blace. 

145.  Altered  to  More  by  the  author  in  Poetical  Works. 

140.  The  freedom  of  the  Theatre  to  a  resident,  or  a  gold  medal  of 
the  value  of  fifty  dollars  to  a  non-resident,  was  offered  by  the  manage- 
ment for  the  best  poetical  address  to  be  spoken  on  the  opening  night. 
About  sixty  communications  were  received,  but  the  committee  awarded 
t lie  prize  to  Mr.  Charles  Sprague  of  Boston.  The  address  was  spoken 
by  Mr.  Simpson  on  the  1st  September,  1821.  On  Monday  the  Sd,  the 
second  prise  address  by  Samuel  Woodworth  was  spoken  by  Mrs. 
Barnes,  and  received  much  applause.  —  riai/goerx  Journal. 

1  17.  Mr.  Oi.liff  was  for  many  years  Prompter  of  the  Bark  Thea- 
tre, and  had  risen  from  the  ranks  as  a  call-boy.  He  was  a  remarkably 
small  person,  having  apparently  grown  but  little  since  a  boy:  and  his 


NOTES. 


169 


diminutive  person  was  (be  cause  of  infinite  merriment.  He  liail  as 
great  ambition  to  be  an  actor,  as  to  wield  tbe  prompter's  whistle;  and 
always  preferred  tlie  part  of  assassins  or  robbers,  in  woods,  rocks  or 
ravines,  which,  contrasted  with  his  small  proportions  and  fierce  looks, 
kept  the  audience  in  good  humor  whenever  he  assumed  a  part,  which 
was  frequently,  as  he  went  on  to  deliver  a  message,  or  fill  any  oc- 
casional vacancy.  We  believe  he  is  dead,  not  having  heard  his  whistle 
in  any  theatre. — The  Prompter. 

148.  The  Park  Theatre  was  destroyed  by  fire  July  4,  1821,  on  the 
night  when  Major  Noah's  play  of  the  Siege  of  Tripoli  was  performed 
for  the  author's  benefit.  The  house  was  densely  filled,  and  as  there 
was  great  firing  of  guns,  cannons  and  small  arms  in  the  piece,  a 
company  of  Marines  was  present  from  the  navy  yard,  and  it  was 
supposed  that  the  fire  originated  from  the  wadding  of  guns ;  but  this 
was  not  the  case.  It  seems  that  the  carpenter's  gallery,  for  convenience, 
was  situated  as  near  to  the  roof  as  it  could  well  be,  and  one  of  the 
assistants  wanting  a  tool  during  the  performance,  took  a  light  and 
ascending  to  the  gallery,  procured  the  instrument  and  left  the  candle 
burning  on  the  bench,  which  after  the  play  had  concluded  and  the 
audience  retired,  communicated  to  the  shavings,  and  in  a  few  minutes 
the  whole  house  was  in  flames,  and  in  an  hour  nothing  but  the  bare 
walls  were  left.  All  the  musicians  lost  their  instruments,  the  actors 
their  wardrobe,  and  the  author  the  large  receipts  of  the  night. — 
Prompter. 

140.  Messrs.  Bf.kkmax  and  Astor  were  joint  owners  of  the  theatre 
for  many  years;  Price  and  Simpson  having  paid  them  more  money  for 
rent  during  their  lease  than  the  Theatre  had  originally  cost  them,  thrice 
over,  they  having  purchased  the  building  for  50,000  dollars,  and 
leased  it  for  18,000  dollars  per  annum. — Prompter. 

150.  Jexxisgs  for  a  long  time  was  a  celebrated  Coat  Scourer,  well 
known  to  the  public. 

151.  Saunders  for  many  years  was  a  celebrated  Perruquier  in  this 
city,  and  a  man  of  taste  in  pictures.  He  was  quite  successful  in 
business,  having  invented  a  valuable  razor  strop.  Newspaper  adver- 
tising, in  poetry  and  prose,  helped  him  very  much  in  his  business. — 
Prompter. 


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lo2.  Henry  Mimos  was  then  a  Member  of  Congress  from  this  city. 
He  was  born  in  New  Haven  in  178l\  graduated  at  Yale  College  in  1798, 
aiul  was  elected  to  Congress  from  New  York  city  in  1815).  He  has  for 
many  years  been  Recording  Secretary  of  the  American  Institute  in 
New  York.  It  is  said  of  him  as  something  remarkable,  that  he  never 
wore  an  overcoat,  never  had  a  sore  throat,  or  headache,  and  though 
nearly  eighty  years  of  age  does  not  use  glasses.  He  is  a  very  amiable 
and  worthy  gentleman,  of  great  simplicity  of  character. — Lanman's 
Die.  of  Congress. 

158.  We  do  not  know  whether  the  above  address  was  among  the 
Dumber  presented  to  the  literary  committee  for  the  premium,  at  the 
opening  of  the  Theatre,  and  rejected ;  but  one  thing  we  will  venture 
to  say,  there  was  none  offered  half  so  well  calculated  to  produce 
dramatic  effect.  And  we  should  hope  the  managers  will  present  the 
author  with  the  freedom  of  the  Theatre,  by  way  of  encouraging  him 
to  make  a  second  effort. — Ed.  Eve.  J'ost. 

1")4.  The  poem  To  Walter  Bowie  was  published  in  the  Xew  York 
Mirror  with  the  following  preface: 

••It  gives  us  great  pleasure  to  be  able  to  lay  before  our  readers  an 
ORIGINAL  Choakkh,  from  the  pen  of  Mr.  Halleck.  They  will  find  it 
rich  in  the  same  genial  humor  which  is  the  distinguishing  character- 
istic of  the  others,  and  there  is  throughout  a  sweeping  power  of  lan- 
guage, and,  in  the  latter  part,  a  sweetness  of  imagery,  that  will 
recommend  it  to  general  admiration.  It  was  written  for  a  paper  since 
discontinued,  the  editor  of  which  has  placed  us  under  great  obligation, 
by  presenting  us  with  the  manuscript." 

1-V>.  The  members  of  the  Council  of  Appointment  for  the  year 
1821.  were  Walter  liowne  from  the  southern  district,  John  T.  Moore 
from  the  middle,  Roger  Skinner  from  the  eastern,  and  David  K.  Evans 
from  the  western.  They  were  all  decidedly  hostile,  politically,  to 
Governor  Clinton,  and  Mr.  Skinner  was  said  to  be  personally  unfriend- 
ly to  him.  From  the  activity  of  Judge  Skinner,  in  all  party  opera- 
tion--, lie  was  supposed  to  be  the  most  active  member  of  the  Council, 
anil  it  acquired  the  name  of  Skinner's  Council.  He  had  been  educated 
in  a  school  of  politics,  which  taught  him  to  believe  that  every  legal 
measure  ought  to  be  taken  to  diminish  the  power  of  an  opponent,  and 
that  to  tlic  ••  victors  belong  the  spoils."  This  doctrine  was  carried 
out  with  great  rigor,  much  more  so  than  we  had  ever  before  been  ac- 
customed to. — Hammond. 


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Walter  Bowne  was  descended  from  an  old  Quaker  family  which 
had  been  settled  at  Flushing  for  many  years.  He  engaged  successfully 
in  business  in  this  city,  and  on  his  retirement  became  a  prominent 
politician  of  the  Democratic  party.  He  represented  this  city  in  the 
State  Senate  for  three  successive  terms,  and  in  1821  was  one  of  the 
Council  of  Appointment.  lie  was  afterwards  Mayor  of  the  City, 
which  office  he  held  for  four  years.  He  was  noted  in  public  and 
private  for  scrupulous  and  exact  dealings,  descending  to  the  smallest 
details:  and  by  his  successful  operations,  acquired  a  large  estate. 
He  died  in  this  city  in  August  184(5,  in  the  seventy-sixth  year  of  his 
age. — Corporation  Manual. 

156.  Charles  G.  Haines,  a  native  of  New  Hampshire,  came  to 
New  York  in  the  year  1815.  He  was  a  man  of  tine  appearance  and 
good  address.  He  wrote  much  on  political  subjects,  and  with  great 
facility  and  fluency.  Mr.  Haines  was  appointed  Private  Secretary  to 
Governor  Clinton,  and  in  1825  was  made  Adjutant  General  of  the  State, 
which  office  he  held  until  his  death  on  the  3d  Jul}',  182(5. — Hammond. 

157.  The  following  is  from  the  proceedings  of  the  Council  of  Ap- 
pointment of  12th  Feb.,  1821 : 

Josiah  Hedden,  Janves  Hopson  and  Henry  Abel,  were  appointed 
Police  Justices  in  place  of  James  Warner,  Charles  Christian  and 
Charles  K.  Gardner;  Hugh  Maxwell,  District  Attorney  in  place  of 
Pierre  C.  Van  Wyck ;  Elisha  Morrell,  District  Justice  in  place  of 
Thomas  Fessenden  :  M.  M.  Noah,  Sheriff  in  place  of  James  L.  Bell ; 
Everardus  Warner,  Commissioner  of  Excise  in  place  of  Edward  Mc 
Laughlin  ;  Doctor  Jacobus  Dyckman,  Health  Commissioner  in  place  of 
Peter  I.  Townscnd ;  Doct.  Nicholas  Quackenboss,  Resident  Physician 
in  place  of  Doctor  David  Hosack  ;  Abraham  Dally,  Inspector  of  dis- 
tilled spirits  in  place  of  Adam  Mott  ;  John  Brown,  Inspector  of  flour 
in  place  of   ■  Duffy. 

158.  Mr.  Bryant  prefaced  the  poem  To  the  Recorder,  with  the 
following:  •■There  is  a  wonderful  freshness  and  youthfulness  of 
imagination  in  the  following  epistle,  for  a  septuagenarian  if  not  an 
octogenarian  poet,  as  the  writer  must  be,  if  we  are  to  judge  from  the 
chronology  of  his  initial  lines.  He  has  lost  nothing  of  the  grace  and 
playfulness  which  might  have  belonged  to  his  best  years.  The  sport- 
ive irony  of  the  piece  will  amuse  our  readers  and  offend  nobody. 
Indeed,  we  are  not  sure  but  a  part  of  this  is  directed  against  ourselves, 
but  as  Mr.  Castaly  has  chosen  to  cover  it  up  in  dashes,  it  might  imply 


172 


NOTES. 


too  great  a  jealousy  of  our  dignity  to  make  the  application,  anil  to 
mutilate  the  poem  by  omitting  any  part,  is  contrary  to  the  strict  charge 
of  the  writer,  who  insists  upon  our  publishing  the  whole  or  none."' 

150.  The  Honorable  Richard  Rikkk,  late  Recorder  of  this  city, 
died  on  the  20th  September  1842,  aged  09  years.  He  held  this  im- 
portant office  for  nearly  thirty  years,  and  was  esteemed  one  of  the 
ablest  jurisconsults  in  criminal  law,  that  presided  in  the  courts.  He 
was  a  gentleman  of  the  old  school,  always  patient,  forbearing  and 
attentive,  when  on  the  bench,  and  though  an  active  politician,  he  made 
no  enemies  in  private  life. — Am.  Almanac. 

100.  The  duel  between  Mr.  Hiker  and  Mr.  Swartwout  originated  in 
political  quarrel —  Mr.  R.,  being  an  ardent  adherent  of  De  Witt  Clin- 
ton, and  Mr.  Swartwout  a  strong  personal  and  political  friend  of  Col. 
Burr.  The  duel  took  place  at  Wehawken,  and  Mr.  Riker  was  slightly 
wounded. 

101.  As  Recorder  of  the  city,  he  occupied  a  scat  in  t lie  Common 
Council,  with  the  Mayor,  who  was  presiding  officer,  and  always  took 
an  active  part  in  the  proceedings.  He  also,  with  two  Aldermen, 
occupied  the  bench  of  the  Court  of  Sessions. 

162.  A  favorite  French  air.  In  English  ••  where  can  one  be  more 
happy  than  in  the  bosom  of  one's  family." 

10;5.  Natiiasiki.  PlTCHBB  was  elected  Lieutenant  Governor  on  the 
same  ticket  witli  Dc  Witt  Clinton  in  1820.  He  was  a  warm  partisan, 
and  bad  been  an  ardent  opponent  of  Gov.  Clinton,  but  the  intercourse 
which  lie  had  with  the  Governor  as  State  Road  Commissioner  had 
greatly  mollified  his  feelings  towards  him.  Though  zealous  as  a  parli- 
zan,  Mr.  Pitcher  was  strictly  an  honest  man.  By  the  sudden  death  of 
Mr.  Clinton,  he  became  Governor  of  the  State.  In  1828,  Mr.  Van 
liiiren  was  nominated  for  Governor,  and  as  it  was  well  known  that  he 
was  to  be  Secretary  of  State  to  General  Jaokson,  and  would  conse- 
quently hold  the  office  btit  a  short  time.  Mr.  Pitcher  was  greatly 
mortified  at  not  having  received  the  nomination  of  Lieutenant  Governor, 
and  it  made  so  deep  an  impression  on  his  feelings,  that  he  never  for- 
gave the  party  who  was  guilty  of  it.  From  that  moment,  and  until 
i  lie  day  of  his  death,  he  opposed  them.  He  died  at  his  resilience  in 
Sandy  Hill.  Washington  county,  in  1N!G.  He  was  four  years  in  the 
Vssouibh  and  three  terms  in  Congress.-  Hammond. 


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164.  The  Commissioners  of  the  Alms  House  met  at  stated  intervals 
at  Bellevuti  for  the  purpose  of  transacting  the  business  of  the  depart- 
ment, which,  report  said,  invariably  ended  with  a  banquet. 

165.  The  Pewter  Mug,  in  Frankfort  street,  adjoining  Tammany 
Hall,  was  then,  and  for  many  years  afterwards,  a  famous  resort  for 
the  Democrats. 

166.  Philip  Hose  was  a  native  of  New  York,  and  had  resided 
there,  except  during  a  temporary  absence  in  Europe,  all  his  life.  He 
was  an  Alderman  for  a  long  time,  and  in  1825-26  the  Mayor  of  the 
city.  But  his  most  useful  services  to  the  community  were  rendered  as 
a  member  of  various  benevolent  and  literary  institutions.  He  was 
one  of  the  earliest  and  firmest  friends  of  the  Mercantile  Library 
Association,  and  his  bust,  in  marble,  done  at  the  request  of  the  Society, 
adorns  the  large  room  of  the  library.  Having  been  retired  from 
business  for  a  long  time,  and  with  an  ample  fortune,  it  was  in  his 
power  to  devote  his  leisure  time  to  the  furtherance  of  objects  of  gene- 
ral interest  and  concern.  When  General  Taylor  came  into  the  office  of 
President,  he  was  appointed  Naval  Officer  of  New  York,  and  was  in  the 
discharge  of  the  duties  of  that  office  at  the  time  of  his  death,  which 
took  place  May  4th,  1851. — An.  Almanac. 

167.  Stephen  Allen's  first  appearance  in  political  life  was  in  1817, 
when  he  was  elected  Assistant  Alderman  of  the  tenth  ward.  The 
public  spirit  which  he  manifested  induced  his  friends  to  bring  him 
forward  for  the  office  of  Mayor,  to  which  he  was  appointed  by  the 
Common  Council  for  the  years  1821  and  1822.  He  was  afterwards 
elected  State  Senator,  and  held  the  office  for  several  years,  and  at  one 
time  filled  the  position  of  Sub-Treasurer  of  the  United  States  in  this 
city.  He  was  concerned  in  several  banking  ami  insurance  companies 
and  in  various  charitable  enterprises:  his  character  for  probity  and 
intelligence  being  a  sufficient  guaranty  for  his  faithful  performance 
of  the  most  responsible  trusts.  In  his  eightieth  year,  in  the  summer  of 
1852.  he  died,  one  of  the  victims  of  the  steam  boat  Henry  Clay,  which 
was  burned  on  the  Hudson  river  near  Yonkers. — Corporation  Manual. 

168.  John  Targee  was  born  in  Gold  street  in  this  city.  His 
father,  a  Whig  of  the  revolution,  left  New  York  during  the  war,  with 
his  family.  Mr.  Targee  was  a  prominent  member  of  the  Tammany 
Society,  and  exercised  great  influence  in  its  proceedings.    He  held 


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NOTES. 


several  important  offices  in  the  city,  and  was  a  Commissioner  of  the 
Alms  House  for  many  years. 

109.  Several  inquiries  having  been  made  of  us  respecting  the 
name  of  the  author  of  an  Epistle  to  Mr.  Hogbin,  published  a  day  or 
two  since  in  our  paper,  we  took  measures  to  acquaint  him  with  the  fact, 
in  order  that,  if  there  was  no  objection  on  his  part,  we  might  satisfy 
i  he  curiosity  of  those  who  had  applied  to  us.  This  morning  we  received 
from  him  the  following  note  in  reply:  "The  author  of  the  Epistle  to 
Mr.  ffogbin,  has  unfortunately  no  name.  His  father  and  mother,  in 
that  sea.-on  of  life  in  which  children  are  generally  named,  took  ad- 
vantage of  his  youth  and  inexperience  and  declined  giving  him  any. 
lie  is  therefore  compelled  to  imitate  the  Minstrel  of  Yarrow  in  Ley- 
den's  Scenes  of  Infancy,  and  like  him, 

Saves  others'  names,  but  leaves  his  own  unsung." 

Eoe.  Post,  Nov.  18,  1830. 

170.  Rkyxolos  kept  a  Beer  House  on  the  corner  of  Thames  i>n(l 
Lumber  streets,  below  the  old  City  Hotel  :  it  was  a  place  of  great  resort 
for  the  Englishmen  in  the  city. 

171.  John  R.  Livingston,  at  one  time  a  Member  of  the  Assembly 
from  this  city. 

17'J.  Thomas  Aptiiokpe  CoOPBB  was  born  in  1770.  His  father,  an 
Irish  gentleman,  died  in  the  service  of  the  Last  India  Company, 
leaving  his  son  to  the  guardianship  of  William  Godwin,  the  author 
of  I'nlili  Williams,  etc.,  under  whose  supervision  he  received  a  superior 
classical  education.  His  attention  was  early  turned  to  the  stage,  and 
at  the  age  of  seventeen,  he  made  his  first  appearance  in  Kdinburg,  as 
Malcolm  in  Macbeth,  nut  failed  completely.  Not  disheartened,  how- 
ever, he  renewed  his  studies,  anil  at  nineteen  had  appeared  at  Covent 
(iarden  Theatre,  as  Hamlet  and  Macbeth,  with  triumphant  success. 
His  first  appearance  in  America,  was  at  Philadelphia,  Dec,  9th,  1796, 
and  in  August.  17U7,  played  at  a  Theatre  in  Greenwich  street  in  this 
city  for  the  first  time.  In  18(10,  he  became  manager  of  the  Park 
Theatre,  and  afterwards  associated  with  him  Stephen  Price,  with  whom 
he  continued  several  years,  until  he  resigned  management  for  the  more 
profitable  career  of  travel.  For  more  than  thirty  years  Mr.  Cooper 
was  the  paramount  favorite  of  the  public,  even  Cooke's  visit  leaving 
his  professional  reputation  entirely  unaffected:  but  the  subsequent 


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appearance  of  Kean  and  Macready  threw  him  into  comparative  neg- 
lect, and  into  a  line  of  characters  in  which  he  was  ultimately  super- 
seded by  younger  and  fresher  actors.  He  accumulated  a  large  fortune 
by  his  profession,  but  his  extravagant  living  finally  reduced  him  to 
comparative  poverty.  He  made  his  last  appearance  in  New  York  at 
the  Bowery  Theatre  as  Duke  Aranza,  Sept  26th,  1830,  but  afterwards 
played  at  the  south.  His  daughter  married  a  son  of  President  Tyler, 
who  gave  him  an  appointment  in  the  Custom  House  in  this  city,  which 
he  held  for  several  years.  He  died  at  his  residence  at  Bristol,  Pa., 
April  21st,  1849,  aged  73  years. — Playgoers'  Journal. 

173.  Mr.  Kean's  first  visit  to  America  was  in  1820,  and  he  was 
very  ably  supported  at  the  Park  Theatre ;  his  engagement  being  also 
very  profitable  to  himself.  While  at  Boston,  he  incurred  the  dis- 
pleasure of  the  audience  by  refusing  to  appear,  in  consequence  of  a  thin 
house,  and  was  obliged  to  leave  for  New  York,  and  shortly  afterwards, 
he  returned  to  England.  He  made  a  second  visit  in  1825;  his  first 
appearance  being  on  the  14th  November,  and  the  recollection  of  his 
slight  to  the  Boston  public  caused  one  of  the  worst  riots  ever  known 
in  the  Theatre.  He  immediately  published  an  apologetic  letter,  which 
after  a  time  soothed  the  public  mind,  and  no  farther  opposition  was 
made  to  his  pei'formance.  In  Boston,  however,  he  was  not  allowed  to 
appear,  the  recollection  of  his  affront  to  the  audience  being  too  strong 
to  be  forgiven.  He  appeared  with  some  slight  opposition,  in  several 
other  principal  cities,  and  made  his  last  appearance  in  America,  at  the 
Park  Theatre  as  Richard  III,  December  5th,  1826.  Ht  returned  to 
England,  but  his  attraction  had  greatly  diminished,  and  his  dissipated 
habits  served  still  farther  to  decrease  it.  His  last  appearance  was  at 
Covent  Garden  Theatre  in  1833,  when  he  played  Othello,  to  the  lago  of 
his  son  Charles,  but  on  repeating  the  sentence  "Othello's  occupation's 
gone,"  lie  sunk  exhausted,  and  died  on  the  loth  May,  1833,  in  his  46th 
year. — Playgoers'  Journal. 

174.  llev.  John  Henry  Hobart  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Sept. 
14th,  1775;  educated  at  Princeton,  where  he  graduated  in  1793;  and 
in  1798  was  ordained  deacon  by  Bishop  White,  and  soon  after  received 
the  appointment,  of  assistant  minister  of  Trinity  Church.  In  1811,  he 
was  elected  Bishop  of  this  diocese,  and  on  the  29th  May  of  that  year, 
was  consecrated  in  Trinity  Church,  by  Bishops  White.  Provoust  and 
Jarvis.  His  episcopate  lasted  twenty-nine  years.  At  the  age  of  fifty- 
four,  while  on  his  progress  through  the  diocese,  he  suddenly  sickened 
at  Auburn,  and  died  there  on  the  12th  Sept.,  1830. 


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NOTES. 


17").  Mr.  Jamks  Bivii \n ax,  for  many  years  British  Consul  at  iliis 
port.    He  died  at  Montreal,  lltli  Oct.  1851. 

17G.  Hkxry  Crugeu,  was  born  in  New  York  city  in  1730,  educated 
at  Kings  College,  and  in  1757,  placed  in  a  Counting  House  in  the  city 
of  Bristol.  He  there  became  a  successful  and  enterprising  merchant, 
and  in  1774  was  elected  to  the  British  Parliament,  as  the  colleague  of 
the  celebrated  Ldmund  Burke.  At  the  parlimentary  election  in  1780, 
he  was  again  brought  forward  as  a  candidate  for  Bristol,  but  defeated, 
and  in  1781  he  held  the  office  of  Mayor  of  that  city.  On  the  peace  in 
1783,  he  visited  his  native  country,  and  while  absent  from  England  he 
was  again  elected  to  parliament  in  1784.  He  finally  became  a  perma- 
nent resident,  of  New  York  in  1790,  first  residing  on  the  corner  of 
William  and  Stone  streets,  in  view  of  Hanover  square.  Upon  the  first 
senatorial  election  after  his  return,  he  was  chosen  to  the  State  Senate, 
and  held  four  years,  although  a  question  of  alienage  was  raised  in 
consequence  of  \\\-  previous  European  residence  Slid  offices.  He  died 
at  his  residence  No.  382  Greenwich  street,  N.  Y.,  April  24th,  1827,  in 
his  eighty-eighth  year. —  Van  Scfiaack's  Biographical  Address. 

177.  General  Morgan  Lewis  graduated  at  Princeton  College  in 
1773,  and  commenced  the  study  of  the  law  in  the  office  of  John  .lay. 
In  1774  he  joined  a  volunteer  company,  and  served  during  the  war  of 
the  revolution.  He  was  appointed  Attorney  General  of  the  State  in 
1791,  and  afterwards  one  of  the  judges  of  the  Supreme  Court,  and  in 
1801  became  Chief  Justice  of  the  State.  In  1804.  he  was  elected 
Governor,  but  was  defeated  by  Daniel  D.  Tompkins  in  1807.  He 
received  the  appointment  of  Major  General  in  1813,  and  in  1814  was 
appointed  to  the  command  of  the  forces  destined  to  the  defense  of  New 
fork.  In  1835  he  was  elected  President  of  the  New  York  Historical 
Society,  and  in  1838  President  of  the  Cincinnati  State  Society,  which 
office  he  held  until  his  death,  on  the  7th  April,  1844,  in  the  OOth 
year  of  his  age.  "He  was  a  gallant  soldier,  an  accomplished  states- 
man, a  kind  parent,  a  benevolent  man  and  a  good  citizen." 

179.  Jonathan  B.  Nicholson,  was  a  Lieutenant,  and  afterwards 
Captain  in  the  Navy,  and  served  under  Decatur  in  his  action  with  the 
Kndyiuion  off  Long  Island,  and  also  in  t lie  Mediterranean.  He  lived 
and  died  a  bachelor,  and  was  always  a  gallant  and  devoted  admirer  of 
the  ladies. 


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NOTES. 


177 


180.  Alderman  Phicip  Bkasiiek,  a  Member  of  the  Legislature  from 
this  city  eight  years,  and  of  great  repute  as  an  epicure. 

181.  Doctor  James  E.  De  Kay  was  educated  as  a  Physician,  but  de- 
voted himself  from  his  early  years  to  natural  history,  and  in  the  State 
survey  of  New  York,  the  department  of  zoology  was  assigned  to  him. 
He  died  at  Oyster  Bay,  L.  I.,  Nth  August,  1851. — Am.  Almanac 

182.  Doctor  David  Hosack. 

183.  The  College  was  originally  a  stable.  One  who  was  mice  a 
student  in  the  College  says  he  remembers  seeing  scratched  on  the  walls 
in  pencil, 

Once  a  stable  for  horses, 
Now  a  College  for  asses. 

184.  Doctor  Wm.  Hameksley,  Professor  of  Clinical  Medicine,  whose 
almost  universal  remedy  for  the  cure  of  pulmonary  consumption  and 
heart  diseases,  was  digitalis.  A  quarrel  ensued  between  Doctor  Hosack 
and  Doctor  Hamersley,  relative  to  the  practice  of  the  Hospital,  which 
terminated  in  the  withdrawal  of  Doctors  Hosack,  MacNeven,  Francis, 
Mott,  &c,  and  the  establishment  of  the  Rutgers  Medical  College  in 
Duane  street. 

185.  Doctor  William  James  MacNeven  died  in  this  city  in  July, 
1H42,  in  his  79th  year.  He  was  a  distinguished  Irish  patriot,  and  the 
companion  of  Thomas  Addis  Emmet. — Am.  Almanac. 

180.  Mr.  James  Tallmadge  was  Lieutenant  Governor  and  presid- 
ing officer  in  the  Senate  in  1825  and  1820. 

187.  Clakkson  Ckolifs  was  born  in  the  sixth  ward  in  this  city  on 
the  same  spot  on  which  his  grandfather,  who  was  the  first  stoneware 
manufacturer  in  this  city,  had  settled.  In  1802,  he  was  elected  by  the 
Republican  party  Assistant  Alderman  of  the  sixth  ward,  and  reelected 
until  1805,  when  he  was  chosen  by  the  same  party  as  a  representative 
in  the  State  Legislature,  in  which  body  his  course  was  such  as  to  in- 
spire confidence  in  his  constituents,  who  continued  him  as  a  member 
until  1825,  when,  by  the  unanimous  vote  of  the  House,  he  was  elected 
Speaker.  He  had  for  a  number  of  years  presided  as  Grand  Sachem  of 
the  Tammany  Society,  and  in  1811  laid  the  corner  stone  of  Tammany 
Hall.    In  1S12,  he  received  a  commission  as  Colonel  from  President 

23 


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NOTES. 


Madison,  and  continued  in  duty  at  his  post  at  the  Narrows  until  the 
news  of  peace  in  181o  was  received.  After  1827  Mr.  Crolius  was  not. 
in  active  public  life.  He  continued  to  dwell  with  the  tenacious  charac- 
teristic of  a  true  Knickcrbacker,  in  the  house  of  his  youth,  until  his 
death  in  184:5,  in  his  seventy-first  year. 

188.  The  title  of  the  Governor  of  this  State  was  Commander  in 
Chief  of  the  Army  and  Navy  of  the  State  of  New  York. 

189.  Mr.  Post  was  Cashier  of  the  Franklin  15ank,  and  was  known 

as  Whispering  Post. 

190.  Leslie's  picture  of  Doctor  Francis,  painted  in  London  in 
February,  181C. 

191.  Captain  Cbeh;hton  of  the  British  Navy,  a  brother  of  the 
Rev.  Docl.  Creighton,  who  now  lives  at  Tarrytown. 

192.  In  the  year  1794,  the  Corporation  of  this  city  petitioned  the 
State  Legislature  for  permission  "to  set  on  foot  a  lottery,"  in  order  to 
raise  money  to  build  an  Alms  House.  The  Legislature  granted  their 
request,  and  from  the  proceeds  of  the  lottery,  the  building  in  the  rear 
of  the  City  Hall,  fronting  on  Chambers  street,  was  erected,  in  1790.  In 
this  building  the  paupers  lived  until  181(1,  when  they  were  removed  to 
BelleVue,  and  the  building  was  granted  to  the  following  institutions, 
viz:  The  Academy  of  the  Fine  Arts,  the  New  York  Historical  Society, 
the  Literary  and  Philosophical  Society,  the  Lyceum  of  Natural  History, 
the  Deaf  and  Dumb  School,  the  Hoard  of  Health,  and  Scudder's  Mu- 
seum. All  these  took  possession  in  181(1,  and  the  building  was  called 
the  New  York  Institution.  About  1840,  these  societies  had  all  left 
the  building,  and  it  was  occupied  by  the  Marine  Court  and  the  Court  of 
Sessions,  which  in  turn  gave  way  to  the  Law  Library  and  various  offices, 
under  the  name  of  the  New  City  Hall.  It  was  burned  down  in 
January,  1866. 

The  American  Academy  of  Arts  was  established  in  1802,  and  was 
incorporated  in  1808,  with  Robert  R.  Livingston  as  President  and 
Col.  John  Trumbull,  Yice  President.  Mr.  Livingston,  while  living  in 
Paris,  as  Ambassador,  purchased  a  number  of  easts  for  the  use  of  the 
Academy  and  sent  them  to  this  city.  They  were  exhibited  in  Green- 
wich street,  with  such  paintings  and  works  of  art  as  could  be  collected 
for  the  purpose.  The  Academy  languished,  however,  until  181(1. 
when  De  Witt  Clinton,  then  President,  assisted  by  Dr.  Hosack,  Cad- 


1- 


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NOTES. 


17!) 


wallader  1).  Colden,  and  some  other  gentlemen,  made  a  strong  effort  to 
revive  it,  and  opened  an  exhibition  in  October  of  that  year  in  1  ho 
building  in  the  Park  fronting  on  ChambeTB  street,  which  had  been 
recently  occupied  as  an  Alms  House,  but  a  portion  of  which  had  been 
set  apart  by  the  corporation  for  their  use. — Duhlap't  Arts  of  Design. 

103.  In  September,  1818,  Mr.  James  W.  Wallace  made  his  first 
appearance  before  a  New  York  audience  as  Macbeth,  and  met  with 
triumphant  success.  He  was  born  in  London  in  1794,  ami  appeared 
at  Drury  Lane  Theatre  in  1812  as  Laertes.  His  reputation  soon  in- 
creased, and  in  parts  of  a  melo-dramatic  cast,  he  was  soon  without  a 
rival.  He  was  a  careful  student,  and  cultivated  his  powers  unceasing- 
ly ;  the  results  of  which  are  plainly  perceptible  in  every  character  he 
attempts.  He  made  several  visits  to  this  country,  and  in  181!"  became 
Manager  of  the  National  Theatre  in  Leonard  street,  which  was  burned 
in  1839,  when  he  returned  to  Europe.  He  was  again  in  this  country 
in  1843,  and  played  at  the  Park  Theatre.  In  1852,  he  undertook  the 
management  of  the  present  Wallack's  Theatre,  where  by  gathering 
around  him  an  excellent  company,  and  by  the  superior  taste  and  judg- 
ment which  he  showed  in  the  production  of  the  pieces  represented, 
he  gave  general  satisfaction  to  the  public.  Mrs.  Bartley  was  a  great 
favorite  with  the  New  York  public.  She  made  her  first  appearance  in 
the  character  of  Isabella  on  the  18th  November,  1818.  She  had  pre- 
viously performed  the  leading  parts  in  tragedy  at  Drury  Lane  The- 
atre, and  after  remaining  a  few  years  in  this  country  returned  to  Lon- 
don, and  played  at  Cerent  Garden  Theatre.  The  melalo'gue  referred 
to  in  the  poem  was  written  for  her  by  Thomas  Moore,  and  recited  by 
her  for  the  first  time  on  the  occasion  of  her  benefit  at  the  Park  Theatre 
on  the  10th  April,  1819,  witli  appropriate  musical  accompaniments  by 
the  orchestra. — Playgoer's  Journal. 

194.  Doctor  Horne,  of  notorious  memory.  The  motto  at  the  head 
of  his  advertisement  was,  "  Saltis  Populi  Supremo,  Lex." 

195.  Doctor  De  Angelis's  Four-herb  Pills,  were  advertised  as  a 
specific  for  all  human  infirmities. 

190.  Adam  Geib,  Keeper  of  a  Music  Store  at  No.  23  Maiden  lane, 
taught  an  "analytical''  system  of  music. 


INDEX. 


Abel,  Henry,  171. 
Abiram,  5. 

Abstract  of  Surgeon-General's  Re- 
port, 42. 

Academy  of  Arts,  to  the  Directors 
of,  124. 

Academy  of  the  Fine  Arts,  178. 
Adams,  John  Quincy,  86.  - 
Addison,  160. 

Address  for  opening  of  New  Thea- 
tre, 84. 
Admiral,  119. 
Adjutant  General,  171. 
Adonis,  68. 
Agamemnon,  '.Ml. 
Aladdin's  Lamp,  51. 
Albany,  38,  99, 119,  154,  157,  163. 
Allan,  47. 
Alcides,  112. 
Alderman,  City,  75. 
Aleck,  6. 

Alexander,  Cato,  162. 
-v_Allen,  Stephen.  102,  130,  173. 
Alms  House,  173,  174,  178,  179. 
Altorf,  2,  138. 
Ambition,  119. 

American  Academy  of  Arts,  178. 
American  Flag,  59,  160,  166. 
American  Institute,  170. 
Angelis,  130. 
Annapolis,  146. 
Aranza,  Duke,  175. 
Arab,  92. 

Arcadian  Vale,  102. 

Arch  street,  Philadelphia,  158. 

Ariel,  94. 

Arts,  Academy  of,  124. 


Ashe,  42. 

Astor,  John  Jacob,  84,  161,  169. 
Astor  House,  161. i 
Atlantic,  30. 
Atropos,  19. 

Attorney  General,  16:;,  164,  168. 

Auburn,  175. 

Auditor,  State,  163. 

A  m  elius,  163. 

Baekwood,  26. 

Backwoodman,  48. 

Bacon,  76,  105. 

Bacon,  Ezekiel,  11,  143. 

Baehr,  79. 

Bailey,  Benjamin,  10,  102,  155. 
Bailey  &  Bogert,  155. 
Bainbridge,  Commodore,  152. 
Bajazet,  74. 

Baldwin.  Charles  N..  2,  138. 
Balls,  66. 

Baltimore,  1  16.  L50. 
Bank  Coffee  House,  156. 
Bankrupt  Law,  50,  138. 
Banks,  2,  57,  71. 
Banquo's  Ghost,  8. 
Barclay  Sheet.  37,  116.  129,  154. 
Barker,  Jacob,  150. 
Barnes,  John,  35,  153. 
Barnes,  Mrs.,  13,  138,  156,  157, 
168. 

Barnes,  Mrs.,  Address  to.  51. 
Bai  lies.  Miss  Chariot  te.  1  -"■•'>. 
Harnum.  Stephen.  164. 
Baron  Toraldi,  36. 
Barriere,  138. 

Barrington,  George,  57,  159. 
Bart  ley,  Mrs.,  128,  157,  179. 


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INDEX. 


Bashaws.  7'.'. 

Bates.  Stephen.  7!'.  104.  HIT. 

Battery,  2.  188. 
Battery  Enlargement,  117. 
Batter;  Tux.  ;::{. 
Battery  War,  [6. 
Bayard,  William,  8,  142. 
Bear,  76. 
Beatrice,  52. 
Beauty's  hark.  78. 

Beaut  v  anil  I  lie  Beast .  76. 

Beekman,  86,  si.  154.  169. 
Bell,  .lames  I...  05,  89,  161,  171. 
Belino,  85,  168. 

Belles  Let  I  res  Repository,  141. 
Bellevue.  09.  12'),  1:!:'..  1*7;!,  178. 
Beeraheba,  118. 
Bertram.  Henry,  150. 
Beverly.  52. 

Billies'  Wood  < 'lit s  for,  125. 

Bis  Little  Drv.  till. 

Black  Apollo,  54. 

Blaokstone,  47. 

Blaekwell's  Isle.  09. 

Blaekwooil.  2li. 

Blootljrootl,  Abraham,  5,  140. 

Bloomingdale,  99. 

Blue  Monday,  106. 

Board  of  Health,  78. 

Bob  Acres.  92. 

Bobadil,  70. 

Bogardus,  (ien.  Robert,  6,  8,  17, 
87,  89,  188,  141,  147. 
t  Bonaparte,  17.  81. 
Bony.  7.  64,  188. 
Bones  of  Thomas  Paine,  157. 
Borough  Mongers,  57. 
Boston,  I  1 1.  150,  168,  168,  175. 
Botley,  57. 

Bowery  Theatre,  160,  175. 
Bowne,  Walter,  75.  89,  166,  170. 
171. 

Bowne.  Waller.  Address  to,  87. 
Box  presented  to  Andrew  Jaokson, 

188,  180. 
Bracket.  Joseph  W..  4<l.  155. 
Brasher,    Alderman  Philip,  107, 

108,  177. 
Brevet  Appointments.  48,  141. 
Brighton  Theatre,  1 50. 
Bristol,  Eng.,  170. 
Bristol,  Pa.,  175. 
British  PlutOKCh,  69. 
Broad  Street.  I  ft..  • 


Broadway.    12,  66,  08.  110,  142 

140,*147.  154.  101,  102.  168. 
Bronaugh.  Dr.  0,  141. 
Browere,  Praxiteles,  05. 
Brown.  (Sen.  Jacob,  152. 
Brown,  John,  171. 
Brummagem.  OS. 
Brums.  IS.  20,  71.  140.  10:!. 
Bryant.  William  C,  101.  171. 
Buchanan,  .lames.  107*,  10S,  170. 

Buckets.  Champion  of,  26. 
Buokmaster,  George,  76,  165. 
Bucks.  75. 

Bucklails.  5,  84,  00.  12:!.  140,  1 52 
168. 

Bull,  Johnny,  30. 

Bulls.  68. 

Bunker  s  Hill.  03. 

Burdett.  Sir  Francis.  1  .V.I.  100. 

Burgundy,  99. 

Burke.  Kdmund,  170. 

Burleigh,  Lord.  18. 

Burnett.  Ceil.  Ward  B.,  189. 

Burr.  Aaron.  142,  172.  * 

Byrne,  127. 

Byron.  Lord.  48. 

Cabbage.  Paulding's,  48.  149. 

Cacaf'ogo.  75. 

Civsar,  Julius.  01.  02.  03. 

( 'u-sars,  133,-f 

CamilluB,  in:!. 

Campbell.  Tom.  48. 

Campbell,  Qeorge  w..  166. 
Canals.  2.  till. 

Capitol,  Washington,  140.  * 
Captain  General,  1 19. 
Carey,  Matthew.  158. 
Cassius,  IS. 

Caslaly,  Thomas,  01.  171. 

Castlereagh,  Lord.  57. 

Castor  and  Bollux.  I 

Cato,  os.  71.  168. 

Cato  the  Censor.  71.  188. 

Cedar  Street,  101. 

Censor.  7 1 . 

Cerro  (iordo,  130. 

Chambers  Street.  178.  170. 

Chancellor,  1  •  •  T  - 

Charleston.  South  Carolina,  130. 

Chatham  Street.  155. 

Chatham  Theatre.   I  16. 

Chenango  County,  10,  148. 

Cherry  Street,  56,  151. 

Cherubuseo.  180. 


INDEX. 


LK3 


Chevy  Chase,  100. 

Chief  Justice  Supreme  Court,  104, 

176. 
Chippewa,  63. 
Chloe,  45,  46,  155. 
Choctaws,  50. 

Christian.  Charles,  40,  75,  80,  155, 

165,  171. 
Christie,  54,  157. 
Chronicle.  12. 
Cicero,  163. 
Cincinnati,  State,  170. 
Cincinnatus,  163. 
City  Aldermen,  75. 
City  Hall,  Nashville,  Tenn.,  139. 
City  Hall,  New  York,  37,  65,  139, 

143,  152,  161,  162,  174,  178. 
City  Hotel,  161,  174. 
( 'lark,  Lewis  and,  69. 
i  *    Clinton,  De  Witt.  2.  7.  20.  34,  40. 

41,  66,  74,  79",  80,  89,  123, 

130,  131,  132,  140.  141,  144. 

148,  152,  155,  105,  170,  171, 

172,  178. 
Clinton's  Speech,  118. 
Clintonians,  40,  122,  143,  165. 
Cobbett,  Wm.,  57,  58,  157,  158, 

159,  100. 
Cobbett,  Wm.,  Loving  Epistle  to, 

57. 

Coffee  House,  29. 

Colden,  Gen.  Cadwallader  D.,  5, 
6,  37,  133,  138,  140,  141,  178. 

Coleman,  William,  12,  48,  145, 
148,  150,  153,  155,  100. 

Coleraine,  99. 

Columbia  College,  141. 

Columbian,  138. 

Columbian  Order,  154,  155. 

( 'ommander-in-Chief,  178. 

Commissioner  of  Alms  House,  173, 
174. 

Commissioners  of  Land  Office,  103. 
Common  Council,  172,  173. 
Common  Sense,  157. 
Congress  Halls,  71. 
Connecticut,  161. 
Connewango  Creek,  121. 
Constitution,  New,  85. 
Contreras.  130. 

I  nvent  Garden  Theatre,  174,  175. 
179. 

Coodies,  34,  40,  152. 
Coody,  Abimelech,  152. 


Cooke,  70.  146,  174.  - 

Cooper,   Thomas  Apthorpe,  107, 

108,  127,  144.  150,  164,  174. 
Coquette,  Address  to  an  Elderly, 

45. 

Cormvallis,  Surrender  of,  146. 

Oostar,  John  G.  147. 

Council  Chamber,  99. 

Council  of  Appointment,  75,  171. 

Council  of  Appointment,  Address 

to.  70,  137,  144,  164,  167,  168, 

170. 

Count  Belino,  35,  153. 
Court  of  Sessions,  172,  178. 
Crabbe,  48. 

Creighton,  Capt.,  126,  178. 
Creighton,  Kev.  D.,  178. 
Croaker  &  Co.,  18. 
Croaker,  Junior,  Address  to,  18. 
Crolius,  Clarkson,  118,  155,  177, 
178. 

Cruger,  Henry,  108,  176. 
Curtain  Conversations,  82. 
Custom  House,  161,175. 
Cythera,  125. 
Dallas,  158. 
Dally,  Abraham,  171. 
Dan,  118. 
Danae,  126. 

Dandies,  16,  55,  68,  71. 

Dash,  Mrs.,  83. 

Dathan,  5. 
j  David's  College.  24,  130. 
|  Dawson,  66,  161. 

De  Angelis,  Dr.,  170. 

Deaf  and  Dumb  School.  178. 

Death  in  Blue  Beard,  70. 

Decatur,  176.  • 

Declaration  of  Independence,  146. 

D.  K.  Tea  Party,  110,  111. 

De  Kay,  Dr.  James  E.,  177. 

Delaplaine,  Joseph,  148. 

Delaplaine's  Repository,  24,  148. 
|  Democratic,  152,  171. 

Democratic  Gen.  Committee,  155. 

Desdemona,  52. 

Design,  14. 

De  Stael,  Madame,  1. 

Detraction.  114. 

Devil's  Bridge,  1 53. 

De  Witt.  Simeon,  72,  163. 
I  De  Witt,  Simeon,  Surveyor-Gene- 
ral, Address  to,  69. 
|  De  Witt  Townslfip,  72,  163. 


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INDEX. 


Dev.  Kit-hard  Vnrick,  63,  161. 

Dcy  Street,  161. 

Dickens,  16. 

Diddler,  76. 

Digitalis,  116,  177. 

Dinah,  52. 

Dinner  Party,  107. 

District  Atty.,  New  York,  165,  171. 

Doctors,  King  of  the,  116. 

Doe,  John,  98. 

Dogberry,  75,  80. 

Domestic  Happiness,  168. 

Domestic  Peace,  Address  to,  33. 

Doodle,  75. 

Doyle,  Dennis  H.,  5,  141. 
Drake,  J.  R.,  189,  160. 
Drake,  Jeremiah,  80,  168. 
Drury  Lane  Theatre,  156,  170. 
Dry  den,  163. 
Duane  Street,  177. 
Dublin,  162. 
Duels,  166. 
Duff,  Mr.,  153. 
Duffy,  80,  171. 
Duke  Aranza,  175. 
Dunlap,  144. 

Dutchess  County,  104.  165. 
Dyckman,  Dr.  Jacobus,  171. 
Dyckinan,  Lt.  Col.  Garret,  139. 
Kastburn,  66. 

Bastburn's  Literary  Rooms,  161. 

Bast  India  Company,  174. 

Bden,  82. 

Eden's  Hower,  77. 

Edinburgh,  174. 

Edinburgh  Review,  1. 

Bdwin,  William,  1">2. 

Bdwards,  •">. 

Klijah.  22. 

Elisha,  22. 

Kleusinian  Mysteries,  103. 
Eloquence,  (14. 

Bmmet,  Thomas  Addis,  177.V 
Km. lor.  Witch  of,  125. 
Bndymion,  127,  176. 
England,  0.  25.  5S,  146,  152,  157, 

158,  164,  175,  176. 
Ennui,  Address  to,  1 . 
Envy,  64. 
Equalitv,  1  I. 
Erie,  121. 
Brie  Canal.  140. 

Europe,  7,  70,  188,  142,  1  If..  173. 
170. 


Eveleen's  Dower,  36. 

Evening  Post,  145,  146,  147,  148, 

100,  162. 
Evening  Star,  137. 
Examiner,  166. 
Exchange  Street,  157. 
Fabius,  103. 
Faction,  94. 

Falstaff,  76,  150,  154,  105. 
Fame,  09. 

Fancy's  Sketch,  36. 

Fanny,  Poem  entitled,  151. 

Fashionable  Folly,  54. 

Faust  us,  81. 

Feds.  34,  40. 

Federalism,  152. 

Fessenden,  Squire,  89. 

Fessenden,  Thomas  (J.,  161,  171. 

Fine  Arts,  Academy  of,  178. 

Firth  &  Hall,  154. 

Fitz,  1. 

Flag.  American.  59,  160,  166. 

Flandin,  83,  168. 

Flushing,  95,  171. 

Fly  Market,  16. 

Forest  Rose,  145. 

Fortune,  06. 

Fortune,  Ode  to.  05. 

Forums.  The.  02,  64,  128,  161. 

Forum  Hall,  63. 

Forty  Thieves,  75. 

Four-herb  Pills,  179. 

France,  138. 

Francis,  Dav,  128. 

Francis,  Dr.",  125,  177,  178. 

Francis.  Sir,  58. 

Frankfort  Street.  99.  155.  173. 

Franklin  Hank,  37.  66,  154,  178. 

Franklin's  Bust,  82,  152. 

Franklin  Square,  154. 

Franklin.  Walter,  154. 

Frcdon,  148. 

Frede,  148. 

Freedom.  59.  01.  96,  123. 
Freedom,  Champion  of.  25. 
Freedom  of  the  City,  3. 
Fredonian.  148.  123. 
Free  School  Trustee,  112. 
French,  55. 
French  Leave.  83.  162. 
Fundable.  114.  115. 
Fundy.  Hay  of.  118. 
Fulton  Street.  58,  160. 

Galen,  71.  168. 


IXDEX. 


185 


Gallic  Thunderbolt.  125. 

Gander,  Party's,  94. 

Garcia,  103,  153. 

Garden  Seeds,  58. 

Gardner,  Charles  K.,  17,  171. 

Gardenier,  Barent,  70,  105,  100. 

Gardenier.  Richard,  105. 

Garner,  William,  30,  150. 

Geib,  Adam,  130,  179. 

Gemini,  19. 

German  Doll.  08. 

German,  Obadiah,  11.  70,  70,  143, 

103,  165. 
Giant  Wife,  76. 
Gibson,  Solomon,  101. 
Gilbert,  Garret,  100. 
Gingerbread  Guards,  17. 
Godfather  of  the  Christened  West, 

70,  103. 
Godwin,  William,  174. 
Gold  Box,  3,  139. 
Gold  Street,  173. 
Goodrich,  A.  T.,  00,  101. 
Goodrich,  00. 
Gore,  Christopher,  140. 
Governor,  38,  119,  122,  140,  140, 

154,  103,  107,  178. 
Governor,  titles  of,  178. 
Gracchus,  71. 
Graces,  31. 

Grammars,  Cobbett's,  58. 

Grand  Council,  154. 

Grand  March  of  Mind,  104. 

Grand  Sachem,  154,  177. 

Great  Britain,  25,  177. 

Grecian,  02. 

Greece,  120. 

Green  River,  101. 

Greenwich,  133. 

Greenwich  Street,  174,  170. 

Grocers,  meeting  of  the,  114. 

Grog,  43. 

Guards,  06. 

Guardsmen,  2. 

Guido,  14. 

Guido's  Hours,  95. 

Guinea,  55. 

Hackett,  James,  145. 

Half,  Capt.,  76. 

Haff,  John,  40. 

Haff,  John  P. ,  5,  140.  154. 

Haines,  Col.  Charles  G.,  89,  120, 

101,  171. 
Hallam,  144. 

24 


Halleck,  102,  151,  100,  108,  170. 
Ballett,  William  Paxson,  03,  101, 
170. 

Hamblin,  Thomas  S.,  144.-* 
Haniersley,  Dr.  Wm.,  177. 
Hamilton,  Alexander,  20. 
Hampden,  70.  v 
Hampstead  Parnassus,  47. 
Handy.  Sir  Abel,  149. 
Hannibal,  163. 
Hanover  Square,  152,  170. 
Hanover  Street,  1 52. 
Haram's  Cages,  04. 
Harlem,  99.' 
Harlequin,  74. 
Harmodius,  90. 
Harper,  Robert,  163. 
Harrisburgh,  158. 
Hartman,  Lewis,  10,  147. 
Havana,  148. 
Hawkins,  140. 

Hawkins,  Micah,  2,  5,  138,  140. 

Hamlet,  17  1. 

Haytian  Grooms,  08. 

Hecate,  75. 

Hector,  163. 

Hedden,  Josiah,  171. 

Hempstead,  57. 

Henry  Clay  (steamer),  173. 

Herkimer  County,  168. 

Hermes,  120. 

Herring,  120. 

He  Stoops  to  Conquer,  119. 
Hillhouse,  101. 

Historical  Society,  N.  Y.,  178. 
Hobart,  Rt.    Rev.  John   Henry,  - 

107,  109,  175. 
Hoboken,  9,  137,  142. 
Eodgkinson,  144. 
Hogbin,  Robert,  104,   105,  100, 

174. 

Hogbin,  Robert,  Epistle  i<>.  104. 
Holland.  John  Joseph,  7:;.  L64. 
Holley,  Orville  L.,  161. 
Holt,  Charles,  165. 
Homer,  70,  163. 
Hone,  Doctor,  179. 
Hone,  Philip,  100,  173. 
Hope,  38. 

Hopper,  Mr.,  13.  1  15. 
Hopson,  James,  1*1- 
Horace,  48. 
Home,  129,  131. 
Home,  Doctor,  17'». 


18G 


INDEX. 


Hosack,  Dr.  David,  56,  180,  131, 

171,  177,  178. 
Howard,  James,  80,  150. 
Hudson  River,  164,  17::. 
Hudson  Steam  boats,  164. 
Humane  Society,  112. 
Hunt,  57. 
Hunt.  Leigh,  47. 
Hurtell,  120. 
Hyde  Park,  L.  I.,  158. 
Hydra  Modern.  1 12. 
la  go,  175. 
llissus.  62. 
Imogen.  52. 
Impudence,  ode  to,  40. 
Ineledon,  158. 
Invisible  Girl,  29. 
Isabella,  17!». 
Israelite.  151. 
Italian  Opera,  153. 
Italy,  120. 

Jackson,  Gen.  Andrew.  2.  8,  138, 

139,  140,  141,  142,  172. 
Jacobinism,  152. 
Jamaica,  21 .  1 45. 
.larvis.  Bishop,  1  "•">. 
Jarvis.  JohD  Wesley,  3,  34,  152. 
.lav.  John,  170. 
.lav  Treaty,  140. 
Jefferson."  30,  154. 
Jennings.  Chester,  00,  101,  102. 
Jennings  |  scourer),  85,  100. 
Jersey  City,  141. 
Jessy  Oatland,  145. 
Jews  upon  Grand  Island,  137. 
Jobson,  75. 
John  Bull,  OS. 
Johnny  Bull,  80. 
Johnson.  31,  42. 
Johnny,  10. 
Joseph  Surface.  74. 
Julia,  155. 
Juliet.  ">2. 
Junius.  71,  103. 
.1  ust  ice  Shallow,  7  1. 
Kean.  107,  175. 
Keene,  168. 

Kemble,  29. 

K.  i .  h.  Jack.  SO. 

Ketchum.  Hiram.  101. 

Killings,  80. 

Kilncr,  30. 

Kilncr,  Thomas,  1 19. 

Kinderhook,  105. 


King.  Charles,  8,  10,  141,  147. 

King  Dick,  74. 

King,  Mr.,  156. 

King  of  the  Doctors,  110. 

King.  Rufus,  20,  21. 

King  Street,  150. 

King's  College,  170. 

Knickerbacker,  178. 

Korah,  5. 

Lady  Randolph,  150. 
Laertes,  179. 

Lafayette  Theatre,  150.  ♦ 
Laig'ht,  133. -Y- 
Lalla  Rookh,  107. 
Lament  for  Great  Ones  Departed, 
37. 

Lang,  John,  150,  151. 
Lang.  John,  Address  to,  31. 
Lang.  Johnny,  32. 
Langstaff.  11*1. 
Langstaff,  Dr.,  1,  137. 
Last,  Dr.,  76,  166. 
Laurens  Street,  150. 
Law  Library,  178. 
Lawrence,  Dr.  John  M.,  139. 
Leavenworth,  55. 
Lebanon.  Ct.,  140. 
Leesugg,  Miss  Catharine,  13,  145. 
Leghorn  Hats,  80. 
Leniprierc,  09. 
Lent.  James,  17.  148. 
Leonard  Street,  145,  157,  179. 
Leslie.  178. 
Lewis  County.  142. 
Lewis  &  Clarke.  09.  - 
Lewis,  General  Morgan,  108.  100, 
176. 

Leyden.  X.  Y..  102. 

Leyden's  Scenes  of  Infancy.  17  1. 

Lingo.  15:>. 

Lit.  and  PhiL  Society,  178. 
Lives  of  Distinguished  Americans, 
148. 

Livingston.  John  R.,  174. 
Livingston.  Peter  R.,  7">.  164.  165. 
Livingston,  Robert  R.,  178. 
Livy.  71. 
Locke,  103. 

Lockhart's  Cane,  57,  159. 

London,  48.  80,  150.  158,  178.  179. 

London  Tailors,  os. 

Long  Island.  57,  158.  150.  170. 

Long  Island  Star,  138. 

Lord  Burleigh.  13.  74. 


INDEX. 


L87 


Lord  Chamberlain,  117. 
Lord  Grizzle,  75. 
Lottery  Shark,  2. 
Lottery  Alms  House,  178. 
Love  of  Notoriety,  (17. 
Love's  Young  Dream,  36. 
Loving  Epistle  to  Cobbett,  57. 
Lumber  Street,  174. 
Lucifer,  22. 

Lyceum  of  Natural  History,  17s. 
Lynch,  Dominick,  34,  53,  153. 
Lysander,  163. 
McEvers,  142.— 
Mat,  108. 

Macbeth,  29,  110,  174,  170. 
McGaraghan.  Ivlward.  811,  108. 
McGarraghan,  Squire,  17. 
Macbeth,  Charley's,  20. 
McKean,  Gov.,  158.^ 
McLaughlin,  Edward,  80,  171. 
MacNeven,  Dr.  Win.  James,  177. 
Macready,  1  75. 

McSycophant,  Sir  Pertinax,  146. 
Madagascar  Bat,  2. 
-  Madison,  President,  137,  154,  178. 
Magenis,  127. 
Maiden  Lane,  88,  157,  179. 
Malbrook,  33. 
Malcolm,  174. 
Manlius,  163. 

Mapes,  Gen.  Jonas,  40,  133,  155. 
Marcellus,  163. 
Marine  Court,  178. 
Market  street,  Phila.,  158. 
Marshall,  Chief  Justice,  2.  50,  138. 
Martling,  Abraham,  11,  140,  143. 
Martling' s  Long  Room,  155. 
Martling  Man,  165. 
Massachusetts,  1  14,  1  15. 
Mathurin,  52. 

Maxwell,  Hugh,  76,  165.  171. 
May  wood,  Robert  Campbell,  13, 

145,  146. 
Mayor,  75,  95,  140,  171. 
Mead,  5,  140. 
Meadows,  Hoboken,  142. 
Mecca,  89. 
Meddler,  76. 
Mediterranean,  176. 
Meigs,  28,  40,  76. 
+-  Meigs.  Henry,  17,  28,  40,  70,  86, 

149,  170. 

Mercantile  Library  Association, 
193. 


Merccin.  Thomas  R.,  17,  147,  148. 

Mercer,  Mrs.,  156. 

Merry  Dames,  149. 

Mexican  War,  189. 

Midas,  27. 

Military  Tract,  163. 

Militia  The,  121.  132. 

Militia  defined,  42. 

Miller,  Judge,  88,  120. 

Miller.  Sylvanus,  11,  144. 

Milton,  71,  80,  163. 

Minstrel  of  Yarrow,  174. 

Minshull,  John,  25,  26,  148,  149. 

Mirth.  34. 

Mississippi,  140. 

Missouri,  86. 

Mitchill,  Samuel  L..  23.  31.  3,8,  47. 

54,  76,  86,130,  131,  14:'.,  155. 
Modern  Hydra,  112. 
Malbrook,  33. 
Minims,  1. 
Monroe,  86. 
Montreal,  176. 
Montgomery,  48.  " 
Montgomery,  Master,  108. 
Monument    upon  Grand  Csland, 

137. 

Mooney,  William,  154. 
Moore,  John  T.,  170. 
Moore  Thomas,  48.  179. 
Morgan,  Lady,  1,  138,  158. 
Morgiana,  51. 

Moreland,  Harry  George,  30,  15(1. 
Morocco,  (read  Tunis),  137. 
Morrell,  Elisha.  89,  171. 
Morris,  General,  145.  f- 
Morton,  Maj.  Gen,  141. 
Mott,  Adam,  89.  171. 
Mott,  Doctor,  177. 
Mumford,  Gurdon  S.,  5,  120,  141. 
Mummy  Chogs,  148. 
Munn,  Mrs,  Otis,  162. 
Murray,  Col.,  147. 
Murray's  Guards.  33. 
Nashville,  139. 

Nassau  Street,  143,  155,  161. 
National  Advocate,  137. 
National  Painting.  1  1. 
National  Theatre,  145,  157,  179. 
Natural  Bridge,  Va.,  30.  x 
Naval  Officer,  173. 
Nestor,  71. 
New  Bowei-y,  154. 
New  Brighton,  154. 


INDEX. 


New  City  Hall,  178. 
Newgate,  57. 
New  Hampshire,  171. 
New  Haven,  144,  170. 
New  Jersey,  142. 
New  Orleans,  155. 
Newton,  81. 

New  York,  188,139,  141,  142.  1 4M, 
144,  145,  14H,  148,  149,  150, 
161,  152,  153,  154,  157,  101, 
Ki2,  168,  104,  165,  loo.  17o. 
171,  173,  175,  170,  177,  178, 
179. 

New  York  Columbian.  138,  105. 
Now  Fork  Enquirer,  137. 
New  York  Uazette,  31,  150,  151, 
152. 

New  York  Hist.  Society,  152,  170, 
178. 

New  York  Institution.  178. 
New  York  .Mirror,  145,  170. 
New  York  Volunteers,  139. 
Niagara  River,  137. 
Niblo,  William,  29,  00,  150. 
Niblo's  Garden,  150,  156. 
Nicholson,  .John  15..  109,  170. 
Nightmare,  The,  122. 
Nippcrkin,  75. 
Noah.  118. 

Noah.  Major  Mordecai  ML,   1,  12, 

187,  169;  171. 
Noah's  Ark,  84. 
Noodle,  75. 

North  Dutch  Church,  Albany.  154. 

North  Hempstead.   L.  L,  57,  159. 

North  Second  street.  1'hila..  15ss. 

North  River,  62. 

Notoriety,  Love  of.  07. 

Nova  Scotia.  1 58. 

Oakley.  Thomas  J.,  80,  108. 

Olieron.  97. 

Ohio.  150. 

Old  England,  26, 

( Mvmpie  Theatre,  140. 

Olitt'.  13,  30,  84,  80.  168. 

Oneida  County.  143. 

Onondaga  County,  103. 

Orange  County,  108. 

Orleans.  UN. 

Ostler,  Tom.  10. 

t  tawego  County,  143. 

Othello,  17">. 

Overreach.  7  I. 

Ovid,  168. 


Oyster  May,  177. 
Paine,  Thomas.  157."*- 
Painting.  National.  14. 
I'angloss,  74. 
Paris,  108. 178. 

Park,  2,  4,  8,  39.  48,  100, 133, 179. 
Park  l'lace.  108.  - 

Park  Theatre.  138.  144,  145,  14'.".  * 
150.  15:;.  154.  150.  157,  104, 
108,  109,  174,  175,  179. 

Parliament,  170. 

Parnassus,  Hempstead,  17. 

Paulding.  .lames  K.,25.  20,  2N,  48, 
70,  149. 

Peace,  33,  34. 

Paul  Pry,  103. 

Pearl  Street,  138,  151,  152. 

Pell,  Colonel.  133. 

Pell,  Ferris,  8.  70.  89,  120,  141. 

Pennsylvania  Jail,  57. 

Peter  Porcupine,  58. 

Pewter  Mug.  99.  173. 

Philadelphia,  137,  138,  140.  148, 
150,  153,  150,  157,  158,  174, 
175. 

Philadelphia  Theatre,  104. 
Phoebus,  Judge,  48. 
Phi  Beta  Kappa,  80. 
Phillips.  T..  12.  35.  127.  153. 
Plullipse's  Mansion,  150. 
Phlogobombos,  23. 
Phoca's  (Juliet.  120. 
Piorson's  Factory,  5. 
Pillow,  (Jen..  189. 
Piuckncy  William.  140. 
Pine  Street,  150. 
Pistol.  70. 

Pitcher,  Nathaniel.  99.  172. 
Plandome,  148. 
Pleaid,  Lost,  90. 

Plum  Pudding  for  Peter  Porcu- 
pine. 158. 
Pluto,  128. 
,  Poetical  Address  Premium  for,  108. 
Polony,  120. 
Pollissons,  98. 
Pompey,  103. 
Ponder,  75. 

Poppleton.  Mrs.,  54,  00,  157. 

Post.  120. 

Post.  Mr..  178. 

Potter.  Mr..  10.  11.  126,  1  12. 

Presbyterian,  169. 

Presenting  Freedom  of  the  City.  3. 


INDEX. 


1 89 


Provost,  Bp.,  175. 
J~  Price,  Stephen,  51,  74,  144,  156, 

157,  174. 
Prime,  54,  1(19. 
Prime,  N.,  18,  148. 
Prime,  War  J  and  King,  148. 
Prince  Regent,  30. 
Prince  Street,  102. 
Princeton,  175,  170. 
Pritchard,  138. 
Prog,  defined,  43. 
Promethean  Fire,  68. 
Protestant  Episcopal  Theological 

School,  140. 
Puisne  Justices  Sup.   Court,  104. 
Pygmalion,  106. 

Quaekenboss,  Dr.  Nicholas,  171. 
Quackery,  Address  to,  120. 
Quarantine,  154. 
Ramsay,  Marian,  145. 

It  ,  Johnny,  107.  108. 

Randolph,  John,  166. 
Randolph,  Lady,  150. 
Reade  Street,  147. 
Rebellion,  116.- 
Recorder,  171.  172. 

Recorder  ,  Poetical  Epistle  to, 

91. 

Red  Notes,  81. 
Regents,  117. 

Register,  Cobbett's,  58,  158. 

Republican  Chronicle,  138. 

Resignation  of  General  Washing- 
ton, 146. 

Reynolds,  104,  174. 

Rhinebeck,  165. 

Richard  III,  145.  D;4,  175. 

Richmond  Hill  Theatre.  153. 
4  Riker,  Richard,  38,  91,  92,  93,  90, 
172. 

Robbins,  Levi,  10.  128,  1  12. 
Robert,  16,  108. 
Robin  Adair,  36. 
Rockland  County,  165. 
Roe,  Richard,  98. 
Rogers,  48. 
Roman,  30,  62,  163. 
Romans,  92. 
Rome,  94,  98,  163. 
Romulus,  163. 

Hoot,  Erastus,  10,  11,  20,  75,  143. 
Rosalind,  52. 
Rose,  5. 

Rosencrantz,  George,  79,  104.  168. 


Ross,  William,  79,  104,  168. 

Rubens,  125. 

Rubicon,  93. 

Rumor,  .Miss,  1. 

Rural  Felicity,  148. 

Ruta  Baga  Turnips,  57,  157. 

Rutgers'  Med.  College,  177. 

St.  Mark's  Burying  Ground,  153. 

St.  Tammany,  102. 

Salisbury,  Ct„  164. 

Salmagundi,  130. 

Sampson,  J.  P.  ('.,  161. 

Sancho,  97.  119. 

Sandy  Hill,  Wash.  Co.,  105,  172. 
Saratoga,  146. 
Saunders,  85,  109. 
Saw  Mill,  the,  or  a  Yankee  Trick, 
138. 

Scenes  of  Infancy,  174. 
Scipio,  70,  103. 
Scoles,  149. 
Scotch  Mist,  29. 
Scott,  47,  80. 
Scott,  John  B.,  168. 
Scribble,  Mr.,  16. 
Scudder,  125. 
Scudder's  Museum,  178. 
Secret  Mine,  5. 
Secretary  of  State,  163. 
Seed  Store,  Cobbett's,  160. 
Seminole  Compaign,  1  11. 
Sempronius,  163. 
Septon,  23. 
Shakespeare,  13.  * 
Shaking  Quakers,  120. 
Sharpe,  Peter,  11  143. 
Shelley,  42. 

Sherman,  Alpheus,  155. 
Sherred,  Jacob,  15,  li»7,  ins.  1  L6. 
Shiell,  52. 

Sidney,  Sir  Philip,  160. 
Siege  of  Tripoli,  109. 
Signal  Poles,  31 . 
Simon,  55. 
Simon,  the  Cook.  64. 
Simpson,  E.,  12.  29,  111.  150,  ]r,s, 
169. 

Simpson  E.,  Address  to,  35,  73, 
Sing  Sing,  99. 
Sirony,  102. 

Skaat's.  Bartholomew,  3,  139,  140, 
143. 

Ski  unci',  Roger,  75,  165,  170. 
Slander.  64,  94. 


INDEX. 


Society  lief.  Jut.  Delinquents,  140. 

Solomon.  151. 

Solon,  163. 

South  Carolina,  139. 

Southey,  48. 

Smith  Street,  156. 

Speaker  of  Assembly,  11. 

Speech,  Mr.  Clinton's.  17. 

Spencer,  Ambrose.  74.  85,  164. 

Spirit  of  Laws,  48. 

Spooner,  Alden,  2,  120,  138. 

Spraguc,  Charles,  108. 

Spruce  Street.  143,  loo. 

Sprightly  Widow  &c,  148. 

Squaretoes,  Old,  55. 

Stage  of  State,  74. 

Staten  Island.  :58.  154. 

Si  air  n  Island's  Summer  Seal.  :)7. 

Steddiford,  133. 

Steamboat  Tax,  75,  144. 

Sterling,  163. 

Steuben  March,  68. 

Sturges  &  Crowninsltield,  138. 

Stewart.  A.  T..  142,  147. 

Styx,  128. 

Sunday  Times,  13". 

Sub  Treasurer  of  U.  S„  173. 

Surgeon  General,  Address  to,  23< 

Surgeon  General,  23,  117.  155. 

Surgeon  General's  Report,  42. 

Surgeon's  Hall,  37,  154. 

Surrender  of  Cornwallis,  140. 

Surrender  at  Saratoga,  146. 

Surrogate  Of  New  York.  144. 

Surveyor-General,  69,  168. 

Swartwout.  Robert,  142. 

Swart  wont.  Samuel,  9,  02, 142.  172. 

Sylla.  98. 

Tallmadiro,  .lames,   74.   118.  104. 
177. 

Tammanies,  40. 

Tammany  Hall.  41.  88.  112.  122. 

1  H),  148,  155,  173,  177. 
Tammany  Society,  140,  152,  154, 

155,  178,  177. 
Tappan  Sea,  84. 

Targee.  John,  2.  0,  34,  102,  122, 

123.  173. 
Tarquin,  71. 
Tarry  town,  178. 

Tartar  Dogs.  23. 
Taylor.  General,  173. 
Tea  Party,  110. 
Tea  ELoom,  1 10. 


Teazle.  Sir  Peter,  153. 
Tennant,  48. 
Tennessee,  100. 
Thames  Street,  174. 
Thebes.  105. 
Thomas,  Simon,  157. 
Thorburn.  (irant.  57,  158,  159. 
Thespian  Fire,  73. 
Titian.  14.  . 

Toast,  Gen.  Jackson's,  2. 
Tom  Codus.  23. 
Tom  Thumb.  70. 

Tompkins.  Daniel  D.,  38,  154,  170.  + 

Toraldi,  Baron,  36. 

Townsend.  Peter  L,  171. 

Tract  House,  loo. 

Tradesmen's  Bank.  99. 

Treasurer,  Slate,  163. 

Trinity  Church,  175.  •+■ 

Tripper.  Mr.,  159. 

Trumbull,  Col.  John,  14,  15,  146,  + 
178. 

Trumbull.  Gov.  Jonathan.  146. 

Tullv.  71.  103. 

Turkish  Wives,  64. 

Tybcr's  Wave,  62. 

Tyler,  President,  175. 

Tvrolcse  Airs,  162. 

lister  County.  141,  144.  165. 

Ulysses,  71.  168. 

United  States  Bank.  161. 

United  States  Congress.  143.  166. 

United  States  Consul,  137. 

I'nited  States  Supreme  Court,  13S. 

Uphani,  25. 

Utica,  143. 

Van  Buren,  Martin.  74,80.  So.  99, 

168,  172. 
Vandervoort  &  Flandin,  83,  108. 
Van  Rensselaer,  Gen. Stephen,  142. 
Van  Wvck.   Pierre,   76.  89,  120, 

122.  105.  171. 
Varick  Street,  153. 
Verges,  75. 
Vera  Cruz.  189. 
Verplanck.  (Julian  C.  152. 
Virgil.  168. 
Virginia.  30. 

Von  Hoffman,  Baron,  162. 
Vortex.  76. 

Vosburgh,  Abraham.  166. 
Wall  Street,  114.  1  18.  157.  101.  167. 
Wallack,  James  W.,  128,  138,  157,  r- 
179. 


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Wallack's  Theatre,  179. 
Ward,  133. 
Warner,  75,  89,  1  65. 
Warner,  Col.  Everardus,  40,  155, 
171. 

Warner,  James,  171. 
T  Washington,  119,  146,  154. 

Washington   Benevolent  Society, 
147. 

Washington  County.  165,  li2. 
Washington  Hall,  142,  147. 
-t-Watts's  Psalms  and  Hymns,  159. 
Weeks,  Capt.  Seaman,  Address  to, 
40. 

Wehawk  Hill.  66. 
Wehawken,  172. 
Wendover,  Peter  II..  76,  166. 
i  West,  Benj.,  125,  12C. 
Whispering  Post,  178. 
White,  Bishop,  175.  -j 
Whitehall,  99. 
Wignell,  104. 


Wigwam,  Tammany,  155. 

wiihud,  Mr.,  mi.' 

William  Street,  166. 
Williams  Caleb.  171. 
Windermere,  47. 
Witch  of  Endor,  125. 
Witches,  75. 
Wood,  153. 
Woodworth,  25,  74. 
AVoodworth,  John,  lli4. 
Woodworth.  Samuel,  12,  144,  145. 
168. 

Wordsworth,  17. 

Working  Men,  Epistle  to  Chairman 

of  Committee  of,  104. 
Wortman,  Teunis,  80,  168. 
Wright.  Prances,  138. 
Yale  College,  70. 
Yates,  1  lit. 
Yonkcrs,  173. 
York  Theatre,  L50. 
Young,  William,  158,  159. 


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